Genealogy for
Alden Joseph Green
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Alden Joseph Green
10/29/1911 - 1/11/1945
(Shown at age 33)
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Alden Joseph Green was born on October 29, 1911 in Roscommon, Michigan and died on January 11, 1945 in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. He lived to be 33 years old.
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 | Census | 1/9/1920 | Higgins MI (Roscommon County) | 8 yrs old | | Recorded as dwelling #39, family #41: Alden Greene (family head, white male, age 39), Mary (wife, age 35), Alden J. (son, age 8), and Evelyn Mary (daughter, age 6). They are renting the house where they live. Alden and his wife can read and write. Both children have been attending school and can also read and write. All were born in MI. Alden's parents were born in Canada (and their native language was English). Mary's parents were born MI. Alden is working as a laborer with lumber wood. |
| Census | 4/10/1930 | Rosecommon MI (Rosecommon County) | 18 yrs old | Recorded as dwelling #51, family #55: Aden Green (age 49),
Mary A (wife, age 45),
Alden J (son, 18),
Evelyn M (daughter, 16), and
Martha Cross (mother-in-law, age 74). They own the house they are living in -- which is not a farm -- and they also own a radio. Aden estimates the value of his estate to be $500. The children have been attending school and all can read and write. Aden is working as a truck driver for the state. All were born in Michigan except Martha Cross, who was born in Ohio. Martha's father was born in NY and mother in PA. Aden's father was born in an unknown location in the US and his mother in Canada/English. Mary's father was born in Michigan and her mother in Ohio.
The senior Alden's mother and step father live next door.
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| Military | 1/11/1945 | | 33 yrs old | | Private First Class Alden J. Green, died 1/11/1945 in Belgium. He was buried in the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Plot F, Row 13, Grave 16, in Henri-Chapelle, Belgium. He was awarded the Purple Heart and served in the 320th Infantry Regiment, 35th Infantry Division. (Source: World War II Honor Roll). |
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1912 |
The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people. |
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1913 |
Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant |
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1914 |
The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed |
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1923 |
Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id" |
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1923 |
Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes |
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1924 |
Insecticides are used for the first time on crops |
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1926 |
Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket |
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1927 |
The first television transmission was announced in England |
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1928 |
Big bang theory was introduced |
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1936 |
The first regular television broadcast happens in England |
| 27 |
1938 |
Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission |
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1912 |
White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out. |
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1913 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures |
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1917 |
NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism. |
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1919 |
NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty. |
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1938 |
NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic. |
| 28 |
1939 |
NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States |
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1941 |
NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers. |
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1928 |
Construction of the Ford River Rouge Plant is completed; the largest integrated factory complex in the world employs 100,000 people |
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1929 |
The Ambassador Bridge opens between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario. It is the longest bridge in the world when built. The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel would open the next year. |
| 26 |
1937 |
Flint Sit-Down Strike ended with official recognition of the United Auto Workers by General Motors. |
| 30 |
1941 |
Between 1941-1945 During World War II, Detroit is called the "Arsenal of Democracy" for its wartime industry; Fort Wayne is the largest motor vehicle and parts depot in the world. |
| 32 |
1943 |
Riot broke out pitting whites against blacks during wartime. |
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1927 |
Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs. |
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1929 |
Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October |
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1930 |
Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states. |
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1932 |
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered. |
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1933 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone! |
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1934 |
Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize. |
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1934 |
Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains. |
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1935 |
Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time. |
| 28 |
1939 |
Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color. |
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1943 |
Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit. |
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1944 |
On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day") |
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1945 |
President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
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1914 |
World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days. |
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1917 |
Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes. |
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1919 |
The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I. |
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1920 |
Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made. |
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1938 |
Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia. |
| 28 |
1939 |
Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun. |
| 34 |
1945 |
World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. |
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 | Mary Lamb
Born on June 3, 1911 and died on August 9, 1973
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John (Jack) Lee Green
Born in Detroit, Michigan on February 15, 1936 and died in Mackinaw Island, Michigan on September 24, 2012. He was 76 years old.
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Kenneth Green
Born in Detroit, Michigan about 1937 and died in an unknown location about 2014. He was about 77 years old.
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Sharon Green
Born in Detroit, Michigan on August 17, 1939 and died in Roscommon, Michigan on February 6, 2024. She was 84 years old.
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