Brief Life History of Edward Aldridge
When Edward Aldridge Peterson was born on 2 June 1923, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, his father, Reynold H Peterson, was 30 and his mother, Beatrice Lilian Aldridge, was 37. He married Margaret Josephine Hughlett on 25 June 1947, in Salem, Marion, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Pollock, Campbell, South Dakota, United States in 1930. He died on 11 March 2003, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States.
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- Edward A Peterson, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edward Aldridge Peterson - Published information: birth-name: Edward Aldridge Peterson
- Edward A Peterson, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Marriage Records, 1906-1968"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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