When Frank Henry Draggoo was born on 20 July 1918, in Michigan, United States, his father, John Lutz Draggoo, was 39 and his mother, Reao Dell Baker, was 30. He lived in Hillsdale, Michigan, United States in 1935 and Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 30 November 1943, at the age of 25, and was buried in Reading, Hillsdale, Michigan, United States.
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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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Americanized form of French Dragaud: from the ancient Germanic personal name Dragwald, composed of the elements drag (from dragan ‘to carry’) and wald ‘power, authority’. The surname Dragaud is very rare in France. Compare Drago .
History: The ancestors of the Dragoos were French Huguenots who came to England in the 1680s. On November 12, 1699 Pierre Dragaud married Elizabeth Tavaud in Bristol and shortly afterwards they came to America. Pierre Dragaud is listed in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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