Brief Life History of Edwin Joseph Raymond
When Edwin Joseph Raymond Weiers was born on 28 February 1922, in Derrynane Township, Le Sueur, Minnesota, United States, his father, Henry Englebert Weiers, was 38 and his mother, Cecelia A. Wolf, was 31. He married Leona Elizabeth Giesen on 10 September 1949, in Union Hill, Scott, Minnesota, United States. He died on 1 January 2003, in New Prague, Scott, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Saint Johns Cemetery, Union Hill, Scott, Minnesota, United States.
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- Edwin Weiers in household of Celia Weiers, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edwin Raymond Weiers - Published information: Cemetery record or headstone: birth-name: Edwin J Weiers
- Edwin Joseph Weiers, "Minnesota, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
1931 · The Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Minnesota Woman was the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old found near Pelican Rapids. The bones were brought to the University of Minnesota for more study. Later, Dr. Albert Jenks identified them as the bones of a 15 or 16 year old woman. Scientists now recognize the girl as someone whose ancestors were Paleo-Indian and now her skeletal remains have been reburied in South Dakota, not available for further study.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
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North German: variant of Weier 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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