Paul Carl Julius Roock
1917–1998 (Age 81)
Milford, Seward, Nebraska, United States
The Life of Paul Carl Julius
Paul Carl Julius Roock was born on 9 July 1917, in Milford, Seward, Nebraska, United States. He died on 12 September 1998, in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 81.
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Family Time Line
Paul Carl Julius Roock
1917–1998
Louisa Ella Sophie Grunow
1915–2011
Spouse & Children
1917–1998Male
1915–2011Female
World Events (3)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
Age 1
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
Age 2
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Age 17
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
Name Meaning
1 Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived by a beech tree or in a beech wood, from Middle Low German buche.2 German: habitational name from any of various places so named, in Altmark and Pomerania.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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