Brief Life History of Laurence Joseph
When Laurence Joseph Gannon was born on 12 May 1915, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, his father, Lawrence Joseph Gannon, was 27 and his mother, Stella Mildred Snider, was 21. He married Isabella Irene Greyerbiehl on 30 October 1945, in Lucas, Ohio, United States. He lived in Detroit Ward 12, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 21 June 1957, in Allen Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Southfield, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
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- Lawrence J Gannon, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lawrence J Gannon, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Laurence J Jr Gannon, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
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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.
1920 · The Detroit Wall
The Detroit Wall is a half mile long wall that was constructed to serve as a wall of racial separation as a physical barrier between white and black homeowners in northwest Detroit. Today the wall is mostly gone with only a small portion of it located at a local park.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Brigid, Donal, Liam, Niall, Padraic, Ronan.
Irish (Connacht): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Fhionnáin, a patronymic from the personal name Fionnán. This name, from a diminutive of fionn ‘white, fair’, was borne by several early Irish saints.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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