Brief Life History of Eugene Lester
When Eugene Lester Ford was born on 10 November 1918, in Osceola, Polk, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Stanley Adrian Ford, was 53 and his mother, Annie I Wood, was 36. He married Marilynn Joyce Hoagberg on 7 March 1942, in Fort Dix, Burlington, New Jersey, United States. He lived in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States for about 20 years and Eitzen, Houston, Minnesota, United States in 1999. He died on 27 June 1999, in Winnebago Township, Houston, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Osceola, Polk, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Eugene L Ford, "United States Census, 1940"
- Eugene Lester Ford, "Minnesota, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
- Eugene Lester Ford, "Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002"
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1919 · Minimum Wage Laws Passed
The first minimum wage law took effect in 1919 and specified women and children under 17 years of age should be paid 22 cents per hour.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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