Brief Life History of Dorothy Edith
When Dorothy Edith Gifford was born on 10 May 1917, in Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States, her father, John William Gifford, was 37 and her mother, Sarah Jane Graves, was 28. She died on 1 September 1964, in San Francisco, California, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in San Bruno, San Mateo, California, United States.
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- Dorothy E Gifford in household of John W Gifford, "United States Census, 1930"
- Dorothy Edith Gifford Deasy, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dorothy Edith Gifford, "California, Northern U.S. District Court Naturalization Index, 1852-1989"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): variant of Giffard, either from the Middle English personal name Gifard, derived from an Old French name of this form deriving from ancient Germanic geb- ‘give, gift’ + hard- ‘hardy, brave’, or perhaps sometimes a nickname from Old French gif(f)ard ‘chubby-cheeked, bloated’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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