Brief Life History of Kenneth Stanley
When Kenneth Stanley Kunkel was born on 16 July 1917, in Coal Valley, Jefferson, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Henry John Kunkel, was 46 and his mother, Elizabeth Henry, was 31. He married Agnes Frances Blank on 28 December 1939, in Clairton, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Mifflin Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years and Allegheny City, Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 8 May 1996, in Jefferson Memorial Hospital, Jefferson, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Kenneth S Kunkel, "United States 1950 Census"
- Kenneth Kunkel, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Kenneth S. Kunkel, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
German:
from Middle High German kunkel ‘spindle, distaff’ (from Late Latin conicula, conucula diminutive of conus ‘cone, peg’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of spindles or a spinner or alternatively a nickname for a tall thin person.
from a medieval German personal name, a pet form of Kuno (see Kuhn ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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