Brief Life History of William Allen
When William Allen Jordan was born on 19 June 1924, in Dagus Mines, Elk, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Clarence Allen Jordan, was 16 and his mother, Emily Frances Haverstein, was 15. He had at least 1 son with Marjorie Eleanor Lindberg. He lived in Vacon, Ain, Rhône-Alpes, France in 1949 and Warren, Conewango Township, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. He died on 3 November 1970, in Warren, Warren, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 46.
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- William A Jordan, "United States 1950 Census"
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1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
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.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English, German, French (mainly Alsace and Haute-Savoie), Polish, Czech, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán): from the Christian personal name or nickname Jordan. This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden, a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was a common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the christening of their own children. As a result Jordan became quite a common personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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