Brief Life History of Harvey James
When Harvey James Howell Jr was born on 28 October 1920, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Harvey James Howell, was 36 and his mother, Sophia Bremer, was 31. He lived in Ritchie District, Ohio, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1940. He died on 6 January 1999, in Port Angeles, Clallam, Washington, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent, King, Washington, United States.
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- Harvey Howell in household of Harvey J Howell, "United States Census, 1940"
- Harvey Howell, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
- Harvey Howell, "Washington Death Index, 1965-2014"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1940
Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .
English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).
English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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