Brief Life History of Charles Bryon
When Charles Bryon Postle was born on 19 February 1897, in Hoskins, Wayne, Nebraska, United States, his father, William S. Postle, was 53 and his mother, Leanna Westbrook, was 37. He married Grace Pauline Wilson on 13 November 1926, in Nebraska, United States. He lived in Richland, Union, Dakota Territory, United States in 1900 and Sarpy, Nebraska, United States in 1950. He died on 24 May 1956, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 59.
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- Charles B Postle, "United States 1950 Census"
- Charles B Postle, "Nebraska, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Charles Postle, The Nebraska Death Index
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English (Norfolk): nickname from Middle English apostel, postel ‘apostle’ (Old English (a)postol, Old French apostoile, apostel via Latin from Greek apostolos ‘messenger, delegate’, from apostellein ‘to dispatch’). As a nickname, this may have been used for someone who had played the part of one of the twelve apostles in a play or pageant. However, the word was also used as a personal name in Anglo-Norman French. Compare Postlethwait .
Americanized form of German and French Postel .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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