Brief Life History of Vera Irene
When Vera Irene Peterson was born on 29 November 1914, in Meadville, Crawford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Claude "John" Peterson, was 23 and her mother, Estella Sadie Peterson, was 19. She lived in Jamestown, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1935 and Dearborn, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died in March 1988, in Livonia, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 73.
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- Vera McKown in household of Himmie McKown, "United States Census, 1940"
- Vera I Peterson in household of Claude Peterson, "United States Census, 1920"
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World Events (8)
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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