When Helen Elizabeth Gittins was born on 1 November 1897, in Brown, Wisconsin, United States, her father, John Samuel Gittins, was 36 and her mother, Helen Izabel Dousman, was 23. She married Joseph Leland Heath Joannes in 1920, in Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in De Pere, Brown, Wisconsin, United States for about 40 years. She died on 7 February 1969, at the age of 71, and was buried in Allouez, Brown, Wisconsin, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
The maximum hours for children to work were set to 55 per week.
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.
Welsh (Montgomeryshire) and English (West Midlands), a variant of Gittens 1, 2, and 3.
Irish (Cork): variant of Gittens 4.
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