It was 1921. That’s when our Cheney and Maninger families were joined.
Ned Cheney and Emily Maninger met in Wichita Hospital where Ned was doing internships with his uncle and Emily was in nurses training.
Their relationship flourished and they decided to marry. Let’s follow along on their wedding day…
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We’ve come to the end of this series of stories. We’ve followed our Maninger family from 1700s Germany to 1920 Kansas.
In our previous story, Emily Maninger graduated and became a registered nurse in 1920.
Here’s an update on the rest of the family, and some sneak previews of what’s to come.
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Val Maninger lay wounded in a cornfield by Whitney’s Lane. Around him lay the dead and wounded of Company H.
On the morning of May 19th, 1862, the 12th Texas Cavalry had annihilated Company H of the 17th Missouri Infantry in a rural lane near Searcy, Arkansas.
Continue readingIn April 1861, Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor was attacked, starting the Civil War. At that time, the United States Army consisted of 16,000 troops, most posted in small forts west of the Mississippi River.
Family Nibbles – Volume 10 is here! This book is about the lives of our Gallagher ancestors from 1915 to 1941.
1941 was a watershed year. The end of the Great Depression. The beginning of World War II. It had profound effects on our family.
The Federal budget increased by an astounding 50 percent between 1940 and 1941. Virtually all of the increase was for military spending.
In 1941 unemployment would drop below 10 percent for the first time since 1930.
Unemployment Rate 1938-1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
Continue readingIn February 1941 fully one percent of the American labor force was at work building army training camps for 1.4 million new draftees.
The End of the Great Depression – National Bureau of Economic Research
In April 1940 Germany attacked Denmark and Norway. In May, Germany took Belgium and the Netherlands. In June, France fell to the conquering Germans. Japan had overrun China. In September, Italy joined Germany and Japan in an Axis treaty.
Continue readingIn 1940, unemployment was 14%, but people increasingly felt the Great Depression was in the rear view mirror. The war in Europe and Asia threatened to draw in the Americans, and the war department was spending huge amounts to increase military preparedness.
Many say 1940 was the year that ended the Depression.
In January 1938, Tom “Buddy” Gallagher was initiated into Sedalia’s Boy Scout Troop 58.
It’s interesting, because it’s one of the last events we know about the Gallagher family in Sedalia, Missouri.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal platform created an incredible number of different federal agencies to carry out new policies and regulations. Almost all of these agencies had an acronym like the CCC, TVA, or HOLC. Therefore, these collectively came to be known as FDR’s “Alphabet Soup Agencies.”
Alphabet Soup Agencies – Students of History
The Alphabet Soup Agencies weren’t some abstract far-away concept. They directly touched people in their everyday lives. Tom Gallagher had jobs with several of the agencies. Mary Agnes and children worked with and benefited from these agencies.
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