When Gordon Rex Wardle was born in 1920, in Twin Groves, Fremont, Idaho, United States, his father, Silas Deroy Wardle, was 44 and his mother, Emeline Orgill, was 42. He died in September 1920, in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Parker Memorial Park, Parker, Fremont, Idaho, United States.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
The Nineteenth Amendment prohibits the denial of a citizen to vote based on gender. This amendment was created because of the women's suffrage movement and because the Fourteenth Amendment was misinterpreted as saying that right to vote was only for men.
English:
habitational name from Wardle in Lancashire and possibly Wardle in Cheshire, both named with Old English weard-hyll ‘watch hill’. Compare Warden 2 and Wardlaw .
habitational name from Weardale (Durham), which takes its name from the river Wear (related to the Indo-European root wis-, weis- ‘liquid, flow’ or wedōr- ‘water’) + Old Norse dalr ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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