| Name |
David LaVern Gittens [1, 2] |
| Birth |
16 Aug 1907 |
Collinston, Box Elder, Utah, United States  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Census |
1940 |
Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States [1] |
- United States Federal, Name:Vern Gittens
Titles and Terms:
Event Type:Census
Event Date:1940
Event Place:Smithfield, Smithfield Election Precinct, Cache, Utah, United States
Gender:Male
Age:32
Marital Status:Married
Race (Original):White
Race:White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):Head
Relationship to Head of Household:Head
Birthplace:Utah
Birth Year (Estimated):1908
Last Place of Residence:Same Place
District:3-51
Family Number:15
Sheet Number and Letter:1B
Line Number:55
Affiliate Publication Number:T627
Affiliate Film Number:4210
Digital Folder Number:005459983
Image Number:00746
HouseholdGenderAgeBirthplace
HeadVern GittensM32Utah
WifeEuphema GittensF35Utah
DaughterConnie Lou GittensF13Utah
Citing this Record:
"United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VTW1-4PS : accessed 24 Aug 2013), Vern Gittens, 1940.
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| Occupation |
1940 |
Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States [1] |
- Labourer, He was a labourer, W.P.A.
The Works Progress Administration (renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration; WPA) was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects,[1] including the construction of public buildings and roads. In much smaller but more famous projects the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.[1]
Almost every community in the United States had a new park, bridge or school constructed by the agency. The WPA's initial appropriation in 1935 was for $4.9 billion (about 6.7 percent of the 1935 GDP), and in total it spent $13.4 billion.[2]
At its peak in 1938, it provided paid jobs for three million unemployed men and women, as well as youth in a separate division, the National Youth Administration. Headed by Harry Hopkins, the WPA provided jobs and income to the unemployed during the Great Depression in the United States. Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA provided almost eight million jobs.[3] Full employment, which emerged as a national goal around 1944, was not the WPA goal. It tried to provide one paid job for all families in which the breadwinner suffered long-term unemployment.[4]
The WPA was a national program that operated its own projects in cooperation with state and local governments, which provided 10%-30% of the costs. WPA sometimes took over state and local relief programs that had originated in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) or Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) programs.[5]
Liquidated on June 30, 1943, as a result of low unemployment due to the worker shortage of World War II, the WPA provided millions of Americans with jobs for 8 years.[6] Most people who needed a job were eligible for at least some of its positions.[7] Hourly wages were typically set to the prevailing wages in each area.[8] But, workers could not be paid for more than 30 hours a week. Before 1940, to meet the objections of the labor unions, the programs provided very little training to teach new skills to workers.
link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
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| Burial |
Nov 1969 |
Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States [3, 4] |
- Plot: A_116_16, Smithfield City Cemetery
Smithfield, Utah United States, Smithfield City Cemetery, Smithfield, Utah, United States
|
| Death |
29 Nov 1969 |
Logan, Cache, Utah, United States [2] |
| Person ID |
I3362 |
Gittens Clusters |
| Last Modified |
2 Mar 2015 |
| Father |
David Gittens, b. 8 Jan 1882, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States d. 29 Mar 1950, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 68 years) |
| Mother |
Martha Ellen Richards, b. 7 Mar 1885, Collinston, Box Elder, Utah, United States d. 17 Jul 1922, Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 37 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Nov 1903 |
Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States [5] |
| Family ID |
F731 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Euphemia Hancey, b. 13 Sep 1904, Hyde Park, Cache, Utah, United States d. 6 Nov 1995, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 91 years) |
| Marriage |
16 May 1923 |
Logan, Cache, Utah, United States [6] |
| Children |
| | 1. Baby Gittens, b. 18 May 1923, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States d. 18 May 1923, Logan Township, Clinton, Pennsylvania (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. Connie Lou Gittens, b. 19 Apr 1927, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, United States d. 25 Jan 2013, Wickenburg, Maricopa, Arizona. United States (Age 85 years) |
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| Family ID |
F732 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
19 Sep 2013 |
1907 - 1969 (62 years)
