1939

January 1939 Dad is twenty and getting married to Kathryn Calkin on October 29th. Two years later they bought the house on Pleasant Hill. The pre Civil War farmhouse including nearly 100 acres of land cost $2,800, an extra $320 bought him a team of horses and a wagon.

Headlines from 1939 include:
• The 1939 New York World's Fair opens.
• In sports news Lou Gehrig's streak of 2130 consecutive Major League Baseball games played comes to an end. The record will stand for 56 years before Cal Ripken, Jr. breaks it. Lou Gehrig, recently diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, tells a crowd at Yankee Stadium that he considered himself "The luckiest man on the face of the earth" as he announces his retirement from major league baseball. The first Major League Baseball game is telecast, a double-header between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, in Brooklyn, New York. The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is dedicated in Cooperstown, New York. .
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is introduced by Montgomery Ward stores and DC Comics publishes its second superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is called Batman.
• In world news-- Great Britain and Germany sign a peace treaty, saying they thereby they are averting all possibility of WWII Meanwhile in the US they began the Manhattan Project: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented with a letter signed by Albert Einstein urging the United States to rapidly develop an atomic bomb program. 1939 headlined the First jet aircraft flight. WW 11 began in Europe and the United States declared its neutrality in the war.