Norma H Dempsey
15 December 1915–January 2009 (Age 93)
Rice, Perry, Illinois, United States
The Life of Norma H
Norma H Dempsey was born on 15 December 1915, in Rice, Perry, Illinois, United States. She died in January 2009, in Sparta, Randolph, Illinois, United States, at the age of 93.
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World Events (3)
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 1
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
Age 2
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1925 · Woman's World's Fair
Age 10
The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Díomasaigh ‘descendant of Díomasach’, a byname meaning ‘proud’, ‘haughty’, from díomas ‘pride’. The name was occasionally Anglicized as Proudman ( see Proud ). Compare McGimsey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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