When Donald Spencer McCrossan was born on 17 June 1907, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, his father, Thomas James McCrossan, was 39 and his mother, Josephine Hortense Spencer, was 29. He married Marguerite Rowena Turnbull on 12 July 1942, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died on 13 April 1989, in Costa Mesa, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 81.
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Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
On November 8, 1910, Washington became the first state to allow women to vote. This event would lead to the long battle by women in all the states to fight for the right to vote. This would happen 10 years later.
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.
Irish: from Mac an Chrosáin ‘son of the satirist’, a patronymic from crosán, a term that originally denoted the bearer of a cross in a religious procession.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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