When Rosewell Isreal Berkheimer was born on 7 March 1913, in Hartwick, Poweshiek, Iowa, United States, his father, Jesse Rosswell Berkheimer, was 24 and his mother, Cecil Gladys Chown, was 17. He married Angelina Chavez Ortega in 1946, in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States. He lived in Santa Ana Judicial Township, Orange, California, United States in 1940 and Corvallis, Benton, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 15 December 1994, in Arizona, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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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.
Original construction of the Camp Dodge began in 1907 and was originally planned to provide a place for the National Guard units to train. In 1917, it was handed over to national authorities and expanded to become the regional training center for World War I forces. The Camp was named after Brigadier General Grenville M. Dodge, who organized Iowa's first National Guard unit. When the war ended, the camp was downsized and turned back over to the state until the start of World War II. Today, Camp Dodge has served only as a Guard and Reserve installation.
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.
South German:
habitational name for someone from either of two places called Berkheim, near Biberach and near Esslingen in Württemberg. The placename is a compound of Old High German berg ‘mountain, hill’ + the common suffix of placenames -heim (related to English home).
in some cases possibly a habitational name for someone from any of various places in Hesse and Alsace named Bergheim.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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