Brief Life History of Bernard Carl
When Bernard Carl Hedren was born on 15 June 1893, in New Sweden Township, Nicollet, Minnesota, United States, his father, Matthias Johnson Hedren, was 39 and his mother, Wilhelmina Maria Flygare, was 35. He married Dorothea Henrietta Eckhart in 1925, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 1 April 1979, in San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Riverside, California, United States.
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- Bernard Hedren, "United States 1950 Census"
- Carl B. Hedren, "Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980"
- Bernard Carl Hedren, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Hedon (East Yorkshire), Headon (Nottinghamshire), Black Heddon (Northumberland), Heddon on the Wall (Northumberland), Heddon in Filleigh (Devon), or Headon Hill (Isle of Wight). Most of the placenames derive from Old English hǣth ‘heath, heather’ + dūn ‘hill’, though the Nottinghamshire placename probably has hēah ‘high’ as the initial element.
English: variant of Haddon .
Scottish and Irish: variant of Hadden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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