Brief Life History of Bruce Mervin
When Bruce Mervin Leyda was born on 31 January 1923, in Minerva, Brown Township, Carroll, Ohio, United States, his father, Herman Leyda, was 36 and his mother, Almeda L. "Meedy" Edwards, was 27. He married Emma Myrtle Cain on 1 December 1949, in Stark, Ohio, United States. He lived in Paris Township, Stark, Ohio, United States in 1930 and Minerva, Paris Township, Stark, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1943. He died on 25 January 1992, in Carroll, Ohio, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in East Lawn Cemetery, Minerva, Paris Township, Stark, Ohio, United States.
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- Bruce Leyda, "United States 1950 Census"
- Bruce M Leyda, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Bruce M Leyda, "United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946"
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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.
1942 · The Japanese American internment
Caused by the tensions between the United States and the Empire of Japan, the internment of Japanese Americans caused many to be forced out of their homes and forcibly relocated into concentration camps in the western states. More than 110,000 Japanese Americans were forced into these camps in fear that some of them were spies for Japan.
Name Meaning
Variant of Lyday , a surname of German origin (see Leidig ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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