Brief Life History of Elsie Iona
When Elsie Iona Artress was born on 13 July 1914, in Toronto, York, Ontario, Canada, her father, George Arnold Artress, was 19 and her mother, Alice Sarah Coulson, was 19. She married Norman Carl Engel on 16 August 1933, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She immigrated to Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1917 and lived in Detroit Ward 20, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950. She died on 14 November 2005, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- Elsie I Engel, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elsie Iona Artress - Government record: birth-name: Elsie Iona Artress
- Elsie I Engel, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Originally a Scottish simplified form of Elspie, a pet form of Elspeth . This came to be used as an independent name in Scotland and beyond, and in the early 20th century proved more popular than Elspeth.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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