Brief Life History of George M
When George M Lake was born on 26 October 1915, in Preston, Franklin, Idaho, United States, his father, George Lyman Lake, was 22 and his mother, Eliza Magdalen Westover, was 21. He married Geraldine Birdno on 23 June 1942, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States. He lived in El Segundo, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 12 June 1943, in Soledad, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 27, and was buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- George M Lake in household of George Lyman Lake, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- George M. Lake in the Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1917, Stillbirth Index, 1905-1967
- George M Lake, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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.
1917 · The Carnegie Library
The Carnegie Library in Preston was completed in 1917 with a $10,000 grant funded by Andrew Carnegie. The Carnegie Library housed the city offices on the lower floor.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English (mainly West Country): topographic name usually for someone who lived by a streamlet (Middle English lak(e), Old English lacu) or who lived at or came from any of the places so named, such as Lack in Church Stoke (Shropshire) and Lake in Wilsford near Amesbury (Wiltshire). Lake is a common minor placename in Devon.
English: occasionally perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived by a lake or pool (Middle English, Old French lake), though it is uncertain that this word was current in ordinary vocabulary during the main period of surname formation (1250–1400).
North German and Dutch: habitational name from any of several places in Westphalia and Lower Saxony so named, or a topographic name from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch lake ‘swamp, swampy meadow’ (Middle Dutch also ‘border water’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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