Brief Life History of Portia Ida
When Portia Ida Morrison was born on 8 September 1919, in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, her father, Samuel William Morrison, was 24 and her mother, Kathleen Damon Gray, was 23. She married Maurice Ellwyn Drown on 25 May 1940, in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Springfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States in 1940. She died on 8 November 2008, in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in St. Johnsbury, Caledonia, Vermont, United States.
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- Unknown, "United States 1950 Census"
- Portia I. Morrison, "BillionGraves Index"
- Portia Drown Or Morrison in entry for Jared Crispin, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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World Events (8)
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1920
Women are given the right to vote under the Nineteenth Amendment.
1944 · The G.I Bill
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
Name Meaning
Irish: from Ó Muirgheasáin ‘descendant of Muirgheasán’, a diminutive of Muirgheas, a personal name meaning ‘sea valor’.
Scottish: from Gaelic Mac Moireasdain ‘son of Moireasdan’, a personal name cognate with Irish Muirgheasán’ (see 1 above).
Scottish and English: patronymic from the personal name Morris .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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