Brief Life History of Thomas Edward
When Thomas Edward Whitehead was born on 12 January 1913, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Richard Stanley Whitehead, was 35 and his mother, Harriet Lou Emma Wimmer, was 37. He married Margaret Alice Adkins on 31 October 1939, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Elkhorn, McDowell, West Virginia, United States in 1920 and Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 30 April 1975, in Orange, California, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Cypress, Orange, California, United States.
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- Thomas E Whitehead, "United States 1950 Census"
- Thomas Edward Whitehead, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Thomas Edward Whitehead, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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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.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).
Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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