When Byron Wesley Pershing was born on 27 September 1919, in Sicklerville, Winslow Township, Camden, New Jersey, United States, his father, Vincent Britton Persing, was 28 and his mother, Edith Comfort Mathews, was 27. He married Ruth Marilyn Perry on 5 April 1942, in Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Glassboro, Gloucester, New Jersey, United States in 1940 and Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States in 1945. He registered for military service in 1940. He died on 23 September 1958, in Perry, Taylor, Florida, United States, at the age of 38.
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The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
New Jersey was the first state to ratify Prohibition, the short-lived constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages.
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Americanized form of German Pfersching: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of peaches, from Middle High German pfersich ‘peach’ (of Latin origin; see Persico ). The surname Pfersching is very rare in Germany, where it is found in Baden-Württemberg. In the past it was also found in Alsace, France, but has died out there.
History: General John Pershing (1860–1948), the commander of US forces in WWI, was descended from Alsatian Huguenots whose surname was originally Pförsching (this form, if correct, is no longer extant) or Pfersching. The name of the Huguenot immigrant Frederick Pershing, who arrived at Philadelphia, PA, in 1749 on the Jacob, is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors (also as Frédéric or Friedrich Pförsching).
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