Brief Life History of Benjamin Snow
When Benjamin Snow Hand was born on 9 February 1927, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States, his father, Claudius Houston Hand, was 31 and his mother, Lillie Snow, was 30. He married Marjorie Alice Murphy on 3 March 1948, in Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States. He lived in District 731, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1940 and Hapeville, Fulton, Georgia, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1945. He died on 23 November 2007, in Ormond Beach, Volusia, Florida, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ormond Beach, Volusia, Florida, United States.
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- Benjamin S Hand, "United States 1950 Census"
- Benjamin Snow Hand, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Benjamin Snow Hand, "Georgia World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
1941 · Florida Involvement in World War II
Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.
1948 · The Beginning of the Cold War
The Berlin Blockade was the first major crises of the Cold War. The Soviet Union blocked all access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control and offered to drop the blockade if the newly introduced Deutsche Mark was removed from West Berlin. The Berlin Blockade showed the different ideological and economic visions for postwar Europe. Even though there wasn't any fire fight during the cold war, many of these skirmishes arose and almost caused nuclear war on multiple occasions.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Dutch: nickname for someone with a peculiarity or deformity of the hand or perhaps to skill in its use, from Middle English hond(e), hand(e), Middle High German hant, found in such appellations as Johan metter hant (Rijkhoven 1284), Liebhard mit der Hand (Augsburg 1383).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German Hand ‘hand’ (see 1 above).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh (see Guthrie ), as a result of association with the Gaelic word lámh ‘hand’. It is used as an English equivalent for several other names of Gaelic origin too, such as Claffey , Glavin , and McClave .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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