When Lorraine Dorothy Vollstaedt was born on 23 September 1918, in St. Clair, St. Clair, Michigan, United States, her father, Ernest Emil Vollstaedt, was 41 and her mother, Marie Louise Reinicke, was 43. She died on 11 August 2007, at the age of 88.
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Otto.
German: habitational name from Vollstedt in Schleswig-Holstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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