Brown/Calvert Tree » William Henry Briska (1878-1956)

Personal data William Henry Briska 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Household of William Henry Briska

He is married to Anna Jane Hilliar.

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4

They got married on September 26, 1908 at Chicago, Cook, Illinois, he was 29 years old.Source 4


Child(ren):

  1. Janice Edith Briska  1909-1970 
  2. Lorraine Matae Briska  1911-2007 
  3. William Hilliar Briska  1912-1961 
  5. Robert Walter Briska  1923-2013 

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    Sources

    1. (Not public)
    2. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, Ancestry.com, Registration Location: Lake County, Indiana; Roll: ; Draft Board: .
      Birth date: 2 Dec 1879 Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: East Chicago, Lake, Indiana
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    3. Indiana, Birth Certificates, 1907-1940, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    4. Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920, Ancestry.com
      Birth date: abt 1880 Birth place: Marriage date: 26 Sep 1908 Marriage place: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
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    6. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942, Ancestry.com, The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; Draft Registration Cards for Fourth Registration for Indiana, 04/27/1942 - 04/27/1942; NAI Number: 623285; Record Group Title: Records of the Selective Service System; Record Group Number: 147 / Ancestry.com
    7. 1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: Chicago Ward 4, Cook, Illinois; Roll: T624_244; Page: 23B; Enumeration District: 0271; Image: ; FHL microfilm: 1374257.
      Birth date: 1879 Birth place: New Zealand Residence date: 1910 Residence place: Chicago Ward 4, Cook, Illinois
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    8. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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    Historical events

    Birthday December 2, 1878

    • The temperature on December 2, 1878 was about -0.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
      • January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
      • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
      • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
      • March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
      • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
      • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

    Day of marriage September 26, 1908

    • The temperature on September 26, 1908 was between 8.9 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
      • April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
      • April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
      • April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
      • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
      • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
      • November 25 » A fire breaks out on SSSardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people.

    Day of death April 20, 1956

    • The temperature on April 20, 1956 was between -0.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from October 13, 1956 to December 22, 1957 the cabinet Drees III, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1956: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 10.8 million citizens.
      • January 26 » Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.
      • September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
      • October 17 » The first commercial nuclear power station is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in Sellafield, England.
      • November 1 » Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
      • November 13 » The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
      • December 9 » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
    

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