Brief Life History of Lorne Rowland
When Lorne Rowland Nash Jr was born on 5 October 1942, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee, United States, his father, Lorne Rowland Nash, was 26 and his mother, Mary Kathryn Lawler, was 19. He married Nancy Faye Arnold on 24 September 1962, in Lane, Oregon, United States. He lived in Brownsville, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 7 May 1996, in Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States.
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- Lorne Nash, Jr., "United States 1950 Census"
- Lorne R Nash, "United States Muster Rolls of the Marine Corps, 1798-1937"
- Lorne Rowland Nash, "Oregon Death Index, 1971-2008"
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1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
1945 · Peace in a Post War World
The Yalta Conference was held in Crimea to talk about establishing peace and postwar reorganization in post-World War II Europe. The heads of government that were attending were from the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union. Later the Conference would become a subject of controversy at the start of the Cold War.
1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an ash tree, a variant of Ash by misdivision of Middle English atten ash ‘at the ash’, or a habitational name from any of the many places in England and Wales named Nash, from this phrase, as for example Nash in Buckinghamshire, Herefordshire, or Shropshire. The name was established from an early date in Wales and Ireland.
Jewish: possibly an Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
History: The surname Nash was taken to Ireland from England or Wales by a family who established themselves in County Kerry in the 13th century, during the second wave of Anglo-Norman settlement. — Abner Nash (c. 1740–86), governor of NC, was of Welsh origin, his parents having emigrated to VA from Wales in 1730. His brother Francis (c. 1742–77) was a general in the Continental army; the city of Nashville, TN, was named in his honor.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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