Brief Life History of Rex Rollstin
When Rex Rollstin Martin was born on 27 August 1901, in Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States, his father, Frank Gilmore Martin, was 31 and his mother, Myra Belle Jane Rollstin, was 28. He married Lorraine Kirby on 23 June 1926, in Yankton, Yankton, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Douglas Township, Madison, Iowa, United States in 1920. He died on 27 February 1985, in Des Moines, Polk, Iowa, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Winterset, Madison, Iowa, United States.
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- Rex Martin in household of Frank G Martin, "United States Census, 1920"
- Rex Rollstin Martin, "Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950"
- Rex Martin, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1913 · The Completion of the Keokuk Dam
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, Irish, French, Walloon, Breton, Dutch, Flemish, German, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Italian (Veneto); Spanish (Martín): from a personal name derived from Latin Martinus, itself a derivative of Mars, genitive Martis, the Roman god of fertility and war, whose name may derive ultimately from a root mar ‘gleam’. This was borne by a famous 4th-century Christian saint, Martin of Tours, and consequently became extremely popular throughout Europe in the Middle Ages. In North America, the surname Martin has absorbed cognates and derivatives from other languages, e.g. Slovak and Rusyn (from Slovakia) Marcin , Albanian Martini , Polish surnames beginning with Marcin-, and Slovenian patronymics like Martinčič (see Martincic ). Martin is the most frequent surname in France and one of the most frequent surnames in Wallonia.
English: variant of Marton .
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mártain, ‘descendant of Martin’ (compare 1 above). Otherwise, a shortened form of Gilmartin or McMartin ; sometimes also spelled Martyn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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