When Gerald Norman Christensen was born on 21 March 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Christian Mathias Christensen, was 25 and his mother, Edith Elizabeth Davis, was 23. He married Florence La Rue Semones on 14 January 1944, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to World in 1943 and lived in Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 20 years and Utah, United States in 1985. He died on 9 August 2010, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Murray Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
Utah is home to one of the oldest coasters in the world that is still operational. The Roller Coaster, at Lagoon Amusement park, is listed number 5.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Bent, Anders, Thor, Jorgen, Nils, Einer, Viggo, Folmer.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christen . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Kristensen . Compare Christenson and Christianson .
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