Benjamin Franklin Keith Jr

Male10 October 1921–5 September 2005

Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin

When Benjamin Franklin Keith Jr was born on 10 October 1921, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, his father, Benjamin Franklin Keith, was 41 and his mother, Martha Finnegan, was 33. He died on 5 September 2005, in Clarkdale, Yavapai, Arizona, United States, at the age of 83.

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Family Time Line

Benjamin Franklin Keith
1879–1942
Martha Finnegan
1888–1982
Max Harold Keith
1905–1982
Donald Robert Keith
1907–1982
Charlotte Electa Keith
1916–2003
Benjamin Franklin Keith Jr
1921–2005

Sources (5)

  • Benjamin Keith in household of Benjamin F Keith, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Benjamin F Keith, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Benjamin F Keith, "United States Social Security Death Index"

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World Events (8)

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Age 2

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

1923 · Amendment of Equal Rights

Age 2

Is a proposed amendment to help guarantee equal legal rights for all citizens of the United States. Its main objective is to end legal distinctions between the two genders in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other legal matters. Even though it isn't the 28th Amendment yet, it has started conversations about the meaning of legal equality.

1944 · The G.I Bill

Age 23

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

Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.

German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.

History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.

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

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