Brief Life History of Charles Winston
When Charles Winston Drinkard was born on 25 April 1896, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, his father, Alexander Street Drinkard, was 32 and his mother, Anne Augusta Campbell, was 21. He married Ida Dole on 25 June 1921, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Blue Township, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 14 February 1965, at the age of 68, and was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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Sources (22)
- Chas W Drinkard, "United States 1950 Census"
- Charles W Drinkard, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- Charles Winston Drinkard, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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.
Name Meaning
Perhaps an altered form of German Trinkart or Trinkert, nicknames for a drinker, or Dutch Drinkwaard, a habitational name from Drinkwaard near Zuidland in the province of South Holland, a sunken waard ‘silted up land’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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