Brief Life History of John Russell
When John Russell Crooker Jr. was born on 18 February 1924, in Bucksport, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, John Russell Crooker, was 43 and his mother, Pearl Folsom Clay, was 27. He married Marion Frances Wooldridge on 25 October 1949, in Orange, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 1 November 1992, in Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 68.
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- John Crooke in household of John Crooke, "United States Census, 1940"
- Jr John Russell Crooker, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- John Russell Crooker, "Oregon Death Index, 1971-2008"
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World Events (8)
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
English: from an agent derivative of Middle English crok ‘bend’ (Old Norse krókr ‘hook, bend’), probably applied as a topographic name for someone who lived at a bend; compare Crook .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Crooker, John Russell online report
In July 1955, John Russell Crooker was arrested for the murder of Norma McCauley. He was a law student at UCLA, and had been employed at Mrs. McCauley's home as a domestic worker. Crooker and McCaule …
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