Brief Life History of Phil Clarence
When Phil Clarence Dana was born on 19 January 1918, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, his father, Charles Morris Dana, was 35 and his mother, Zina Robinson, was 34. He died on 1 April 1944, in England, United Kingdom, at the age of 26, and was buried in Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery, Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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- Clarance Phil Dana in household of Charles Morris Dana, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Phil Clarence Dana, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
- Phil Clarence Dana, "Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1919 · Mesa Arizona Latter-day Saint Temple Announced
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.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Probably an altered form of English Dawney or Dawnay (see Dawn ), cognates of French Daunay (see Donais ).
Czech and Slovak (Daňa); Polish and Hungarian: from a short form of the personal name Daniel (Hungarian Dániel), or perhaps from a short form of any of various Slavic compound personal names formed with the element dan ‘given’, for example Czech Danomír and Bohdan, Polish Bogdan .
Albanian: nickname or metonymic occupational name from danë (definite form dana) ‘pincers’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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