 Birth | June 26, 1883 |
 Birth of a brother | Earl M Wooden about 1889 (Age 5 years) |
 Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 14 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
 Marriage | Bertha Estella Power — View this family December 26, 1906 (Age 23 years) |
| Birth of a daughter #1 | Opal Ellen Wooden November 24, 1907 (Age 24 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Dean Milo Wooden July 14, 1909 (Age 26 years) Note: Everything says 14 Jul 1910 but he was 9m old in 1910 Census -b |
 Census | April 2, 1910 (Age 26 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 32 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 33 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 34 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Census | March 15, 1920 (Age 36 years) |
| Marriage of a child | Truman Lawrence Mitchell — Opal Ellen Wooden — View this family December 26, 1928 (Age 45 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 46 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Census | April 5, 1930 (Age 46 years) |
| Death of a brother | John Dana Wooden January 11, 1932 (Age 48 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #1 | Truman Neil Mitchell November 2, 1932 (Age 49 years) |
| Census | April 2, 1940 (Age 56 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 58 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 66 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 62 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | July 24, 1955 (Age 72 years) |