Brief Life History of Arvid Layman
When Arvid Layman Kragtorp was born on 4 December 1913, in Tracy, Lyon, Minnesota, United States, his father, Carl Ulriksen Kragtorp, was 41 and his mother, Remina Augusta Rialson, was 38. He married Laurell Winifred Rialson on 28 June 1940, in District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Mount Rainier, Prince George's, Maryland, United States in 1940 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He died in January 1985, at the age of 71, and was buried in Rialson Cemetery, Tracy, Lyon, Minnesota, United States.
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- Arvid L Kragtorp, "United States 1950 Census"
- Arvia Layman Krogthrop, "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980"
- Arvid Layman Kragtorp, "District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950"
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1914 · The Man With The First Air Conditioned Home
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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.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Name Meaning
From an Old Norse personal name from arn ‘eagle’ + viðr ‘wood, tree’.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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