Brief Life History of Robert Shipley
When Robert Shipley Wilde Jr. was born on 1 December 1908, in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States, his father, Robert Tom Wilde, was 20 and his mother, Alice Marie Sather, was 18. He married Estelle June Smith on 18 August 1931, in Rock Springs, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States. He lived in Election District 6, Sweetwater, Wyoming, United States in 1940. He died on 16 March 1996, in Wheat Ridge, Jefferson, Colorado, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Arvada, Jefferson, Colorado, United States.
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- Robert Wilde in household of Robert Wilde, "United States Census, 1920"
- Robert Shipley Wilde, "Wyoming, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Robert S. Wilde, "BillionGraves Index"
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1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1909 · Garden of the Gods Park
In 1879, railroad tycoon, Charles Elliott Perkins bought 240 acres whrere The Garden of the Gods is located, and planned to use it as a summer home. Perkins died in 1907 before he could establish it as a public park. Perkin's children donated the now 480 acres to the city of Colorado Springs, to become a public park.
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
Irish, English, and German: variant of Wild . This is the usual form of the surname in Ireland.
Dutch: variant of De Wilde .
History: The writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, Ireland, descended from Ralph Wilde, a builder from Walsingham near Durham, England, who had moved to Ireland in the 17th century. Richard Henry Wilde (1789–1847), born in Dublin, emigrated to Baltimore, MD, in 1797 and was raised in GA, where he became a congressman (1815–17, 1827–35). He moved to New Orleans, LA, in 1843 and was a professor at the University of LA (now Tulane).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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