Brief Life History of Helen Louisa
Helen Louisa Fenselau was born on 12 November 1914, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States as the daughter of Herman Fenselan and Louisa Russell. She married Paul Eugene Wenger on 9 March 1932, in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 September 1979, in Wildwood, Cape May, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Cape May, New Jersey, United States.
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Sources (6)
- Helen Wenger, "United States 1950 Census"
- Helen Fenselau, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"
- Helen Fenselaw, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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World Events (8)
1916
"During a deadly heat wave, thousands of residents were at the seaside resorts of Jersey Shore. Between July 1 and July 2 of 1916, five different people were attacked by sharks, and four of them ultimately died. Scientific knowledge about sharks was limited at this time, so these tragic incidents started a wave of ""shark panic"" that was spread by telephone calls, letters, newspapers, and other media."
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Name Meaning
vernacular form of the name (Greek Hēlēnē) borne in classical legend by a famous beauty, wife of Menelaus, whose seizure by the Trojan prince Paris sparked off the Trojan War. Her name is of uncertain origin; it may be connected with a word meaning ‘ray’ or ‘sunbeam’ compare Greek hēlios ‘sun’. It has sometimes been taken as connected with the Greek word meaning ‘Greek’, Hellēn, but this is doubtful. In the early Christian period the name was borne by the mother of the Emperor Constantine, who is now usually known by the Latin version of her name, Helena. She is credited with having found the True Cross in Jerusalem. She was born in about 248 , probably in Bithynia. However, in medieval England it was believed that she had been born in Britain, which greatly increased the popularity of the name there.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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