Brief Life History of Helen M
When Helen M Rapp was born on 19 June 1915, in Missouri, United States, her father, Henry Rapp, was 39 and her mother, Mary Ellen Gilson, was 34. She lived in Boonville, Louisiana Territory, United States for about 10 years and Boonville Township, Cooper, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 8 April 2005, in Cooper, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89.
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Sources (5)
- Helen M Rapp in household of Henry Rapp, "United States Census, 1940"
- Helen M Ferguson, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Helen M Ferguson, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Swedish: soldier's name from rapp ‘quick, prompt’.
German and Swiss German: from Middle High German rapp, rabe ‘raven’, hence a nickname for someone with black hair, or some other supposed resemblance to the bird. In some cases the surname may have been a topographic or habitational name referring to a house distinguished by the sign of a raven.
English (London; also Yorkshire): unexplained.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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