When Bernardine Phelps was born on 23 June 1915, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, her father, William Orrin Phelps, was 39 and her mother, Minnie Ola Turnbow, was 35. She married Calvin Sabin Merrill on 30 August 1941, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. She lived in Supervisorial District 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940. She died on 28 December 1982, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
The Mesa Arizona Latter-day Saint Temple was announced on October 3, 1919. Don Carlos Young and Ramm Hansen were chosen to design the temple. The Mesa, Arizona temple was the first temple to be built in Arizona.
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Scottish and English (southwestern): variant of Phillips .
History: The brothers George and William Phelps emigrated from Gloucestershire, England, to Dorchester, MA, c. 1630. Five years later they moved to Windsor, CT. George's sixth-generation descendant, Anson Greene Phelps (1781–1853), rose from being a penniless orphan to the status of a major industrialist and a prominent CT philanthropist.
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