Brief Life History of Virgil Hugo "Bud"
When Virgil Hugo "Bud" Kann was born on 21 November 1921, in Jefferson Township, Clayton, Iowa, United States, his father, Gregor Xavier Kann, was 31 and his mother, Anna Katherine Miller, was 25. He married Lydia Maria Hammer on 9 September 1953, in Berlin, Germany. He lived in Grand Meadow Township, Clayton, Iowa, United States in 1925. He died on 3 May 2003, in Solana Beach, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Clayton, Iowa, United States.
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- Unknown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Virgil Hugo Kann, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Virgil Hugo Kann, "Iowa, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1922 · Oldest radio station west of the Mississippi
The Karlowa Radio Corporation, in Davenport, was issued a new license for broadcasting and with it they were randomly assigned call letters of WOC. The small studio was the first to reach the Iowa area and was identified as one of 21 stations that were desirable because of coverage area and performance. In September 1927, WOC became a member of the new NBC radio network and still is today. In 1932, Ronald Reagan got his first broadcasting job at WOC as a sportscaster and he returned in 1988 after his presidency tour. WOC is the oldest surviving broadcasting station in the middle Mississippi Valley and was the first to keep logs on their electrical consumption and their on-air programming.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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
German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Middle High German, Middle Low German, Danish kanne, German Kanne ‘jug, flagon’ (from Latin canna), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of jugs or, in some cases, possibly a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or tavern distinguished by the sign of a flagon.
Austrian German: from a short form of the personal name Candidus.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Cohen .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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