Brief Life History of Elinor
When Elinor Kessler was born on 27 October 1914, in San Francisco, California, United States, her father, Donald Edward Kessler, was 28 and her mother, Ruth Elizabeth Adams, was 26. She married Edward Francis Joseph Moran on 27 November 1941, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States. She lived in Piedmont, Alameda, California, United States for about 5 years and Oakland Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States in 1940. She died on 26 November 1988, in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Oakland, Alameda, California, United States.
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- Eleanor Kessler in household of Donald E Kessler, "United States Census, 1920"
- Elinor Kessler, "California Birth Index, 1905-1995"
- Elinor K Moran, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
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
German, Dutch (of German origin), and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a maker of copper cooking vessels, from an agent derivative of Middle High German keʒʒel ‘kettle, cauldron’, Middle Dutch ketel, modern German Kessel.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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