Brief Life History of Alward Forster
When Alward Forster Fenn was born on 20 July 1919, in Benson, Cochise, Arizona, United States, his father, Alvah Fenn, was 29 and his mother, Carmen Forster, was 27. He married Frances Marie Skaggs on 25 August 1946, in Benson, Cochise, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Supervisorial District 3, Cochise, Arizona, United States in 1940 and Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States in 2009. He died on 22 February 2009, in Scottsdale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Pomerene, Cochise, Arizona, United States.
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- Alward F Fenn in household of Alvah Fenn, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Alward Forster Fenn, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
- Alward Forster Fenn, "Hawaii, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1920
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
1944 · The G.I Bill
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name in south-east England for someone who lived in a low-lying marshy area, from Middle English fen(ne) ‘fen, marsh’ (Old English fenn).
South German: topographic name from Old High German fenni, Middle Low German and Old Frisian fenne ‘bog’. Compare Fehn .
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 馮, see Feng 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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