Verbis Family

Born: 5 August 1870, Lithuania
Died: 9 October 1958, Grand Rapids, Mi, Kent County
Buried: Holy Cross Cemetery, Kent County, Mi
Spouse: Joseph R Burinskas
Children: Otto Burinskas, Ada Burinskas, Ann Burinskas,
Susan Burinskas, Frances Burinskas, Adolph Burinskas
Siblings: Unknown

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-US Population Census Report -1920
-US Population Census Report – 1930

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Current world events from Petronela’s birth year of 1870:

January 3 – Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins

January 10 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil

January 15 – A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the United States Democratic Party with a donkey (“A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” by Thomas Nast for Harper’s Weekly)

January 26 – Reconstruction: Virginia rejoins the Union

January 27 – First college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, is established at DePauw University

February 3 – The 15th Amendment (allowing Blacks to vote) to the United States Constitution is passed

February 23 – Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union

March 19 – Ohio Legislature passes the Cannon Act, thereby establishing the Ohio Agriculture and Mechanical College, later The Ohio State University

March 24 – Syracuse University is established and officially opens

March 30 – Texas is readmitted to the Union following Reconstruction

June 22 – The U.S. Congress creates the Department of Justice

November 1 – In the United States, the newly-created Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast: “High winds at Chicago and Milwaukee… and along the Lakes”

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