Thomas Henry Clydesdale

Brief Life History of Thomas Henry

When Thomas Henry Clydesdale was born on 12 December 1914, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Van Buskirk Clydesdale, was 23 and his mother, Sylvia Florence Ives, was 23. He married Alice Roushey Rose on 7 December 1940, in Camden, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Upper Penns Neck Township, Salem, New Jersey, United States in 1950 and Ocean View, Dennis Township, Cape May, New Jersey, United States in 2005. He died on 11 February 2006, in New Jersey, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Cape May, New Jersey, United States.

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Family Time Line

Thomas Henry Clydesdale
1914–2006
Alice Roushey Rose
1918–1998
Marriage: 7 December 1940
Robert Thomas Clydesdale
1941–2017
James Dennis Clydesdale
1945–2004

Sources (13)

  • Thomas H Clydesdale, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Thomas H Clydesdale, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Thomas H Clydesdale, "United States Social Security Death Index"

World Events (8)

1916

"During a deadly heat wave, thousands of residents were at the seaside resorts of Jersey Shore. Between July 1 and July 2 of 1916, five different people were attacked by sharks, and four of them ultimately died. Scientific knowledge about sharks was limited at this time, so these tragic incidents started a wave of ""shark panic"" that was spread by telephone calls, letters, newspapers, and other media."

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.

1938

The infamous radio debut of War of the Worlds (an adaptation of the novel by Orson Welles) was broadcast from New Jersey. The drama program was framed as a news broadcast describing an alien invasion, which reportedly caused panic among a small subset of listeners that tuned in late. However, the newspaper industry exaggerated reports of the confusion to make it sound widespread. It's believed that the newspaper industry was attempting to take advantage of the situation to discredit the reliability of radio broadcasting.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from Clydesdale in Lanarkshire.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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