When Clarence Harlow Duffin was born on 1 November 1919, in Springfield, Bingham, Idaho, United States, his father, Clarence Duffin, was 35 and his mother, Jennie Eldora Barlow, was 25. He married Marjorie Elaine Horton on 14 December 1946, in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1956 and lived in Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States in 1950 and Punta Gorda, Zulia, Venezuela in 2009. He died on 26 December 2009, in Punta Gorda, Charlotte, Florida, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Royal Palm Memorial Gardens, Punta Gorda, Charlotte, Florida, 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.
Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.
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.
English (Hampshire): possibly from the Old Norse personal name Dufan, a loan from Old Irish Dubán, derived from the ancestor of Gaelic dubh ‘dark’.
Irish (Antrim): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duibhfinn, ‘descendant of Dubhfionn’, a personal name composed of dubh ‘dark’ + fionn ‘fair’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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