Brief Life History of Richard Dryden
When Richard Dryden Field was born on 26 December 1914, in Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Fleet Folsom Field, was 33 and his mother, Jane Elizabeth Fox, was 32. He married Margaret Joy Morlan on 4 April 1942, in Clark, Nevada, United States. He lived in Los Angeles, California, United States in 2001. He registered for military service in 1942. He died on 30 April 1993, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Richard D Field, "United States 1950 Census"
- Richard D Field, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
- Richard Dryden Field, "Pennsylvania, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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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.
1934 · Alcatraz Island Becomes Federal Penitentiary
Alcatraz Island officially became Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on August 11, 1934. The island is situated in the middle of frigid water and strong currents of the San Francisco Bay, which deemed it virtually inescapable. Alcatraz became known as the toughest prison in America and was seen as a “last resort prison.” Therefore, Alcatraz housed some of America’s most notorious prisoners such as Al Capone and Robert Franklin Stroud. Due to the exorbitant cost of running the prison, and the deterioration of the buildings due to salt spray, Alcatraz Island closed as a penitentiary on March 21, 1963.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: habitational name, probably from Field, in Leigh, Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English feld ‘flat open country’. In the late 12th century one of Henry II's warrior knights took the surname to Ireland, where it often took the semi-Norman French form de la Feld. From the 15th century onward it was increasingly reduced to Field and gave its name to Fieldstown, the family's chief seat near Dublin. A branch of the Anglo-Irish family that migrated back to England in the 14th century retained the Normanized form as Delafield .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable field or an area of open country (Middle English feld).
Irish: Anglicized form of Feeley , through similarity of sound, and of Maghery by translation (chiefly in Armagh), from Gaelic An Mhachaire ‘of the field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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