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Personal data Arthur Jansonius 


Household of Arthur Jansonius

He is married to Sophia Mame Penning.

They got married on February 14, 1918 at Austinville, Butler County, Iowa, he was 24 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Calvin L Jansonius  1926-2014 


Notes about Arthur Jansonius

My parents , Arthur Jansonius and Sophia Penning, were married onValentine's Day in 1918. They settled on the Jansonius family farm wherethey lived the rest of their lives.
Scarcely a quarter of a mile from the home was Island Grove School, whichmy brother Calvin, sister Gloria, and I attended through the 8th grade.It stood at the top of a long hill which made for excellent sledding inwinter-time recesses.
My mother was an avid gardner and thought the years beautified our homewith shrubs and flowers. Tall green foliage formed a background forMother's flower beds that blossomed with a rainbow of colors all springand summer. On Sunday afternoon and summer evenings, people frequentlystopped at our house for the pleasure of walking through Mother's gardens.
My mother had a strong soprano voice and for a while sang in the churchchoir.
My father worked as diligently at his farming as Mother did with herflowers. Every spring he kept one eye on the neighboring farms becausehe did not want to be the last farmer to start working the fields in thespring. In the fall he most certainly did not want to be the last tofinish picking corn.
Dad enjoyed hunting and fishing. He always looked forward to the legalopen season for hunting pheasants in the fall.
Christmas at our home was a wondrously thrilling time, beginning onChristmas Eve with a program at Westfriesland Church, organized andcoached by Rev. Henry Johnson, and in which Calvin, Gloria , and Iparticipated with songs and recitations. On Christmas Day there weregifts in the morning, and in the evening we attended a family gatheringat the home of my Penning grandparents.
Second only to Christmas as the high point of the year was athe Fourth ofJuly. That was the day of the annual Jansonius family picnic. It washeld in the woods on our farm with the shallow creek flowing on one sideand steep cliffs rising on the other.
It was Very special for the aunts to return to the home of theirchildhood, and occasionally they became so carried away that they removedtheir shoes and stockings and waded in the creek.
Fireworks were legal at that time and the cousins all arrived armed withmany different kinds.
Mother passed away on April 24, 1969 and Dad on Nov. 7, 1971, and forseveral years the house was occupied by renter.
In 1977, the family was saddened when the Jansonius home burned to theground.

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Historical events

Birthday July 18, 1893

  • The temperature on July 18, 1893 was about 15.5 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
    • July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
    • July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
    • July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
    • August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
    • November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
    • December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

Day of marriage February 14, 1918

  • The temperature on February 14, 1918 was between -1.4 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1918: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.6 million citizens.
    • February 21 » The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
    • March 23 » First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
    • July 4 » Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).
    • July 12 » The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
    • October 30 » World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
    • November 11 » World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.

Day of death November 7, 1971

  • The temperature on November 7, 1971 was between 2.0 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
    • March 26 » East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
    • April 7 » President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
    • July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
    • September 13 » Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
    • September 15 » The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
    • October 21 » A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.

Day of burial November 10, 1971

  • The temperature on November 10, 1971 was between -1.7 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1971: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 13.1 million citizens.
    • January 25 » Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
    • February 2 » Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
    • February 15 » The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day.
    • March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
    • May 1 » Amtrak (the National Railroad Passenger Corporation) takes over operation of U.S. passenger rail service.
    • May 13 » Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.


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