Brief Life History of George Franklin
When George Franklin Plunkert was born on 20 May 1898, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Joseph Plunkert, was 24 and his mother, Alverta Hays Mehring, was 21. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Garma E Boose. He lived in Mount Joy Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States for about 40 years. He died on 2 May 1976, in Hanover, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Littlestown, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- George Plunkert, "United States Census, 1940"
- George Franklin Plunkert, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- George Plunkert, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a metathesized form of Plouquenet in Ille-et-Villaine, Brittany, so named from Breton plou ‘parish’ (from Latin plebs ‘people’) + Guenec, the personal name (a diminutive of guen ‘white’) of a somewhat obscure saint. As an Irish name, it has been Gaelicized as Pluincéid.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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