When Oruster T. Polley was born on 7 September 1874, in Perry, Indiana, United States, his father, Daniel Webster Polley, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Ann Neal, was 27.
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The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
English (mainly southeastern): variant of Pooley .
German: variant of Poley .
French (northern): variant of Pollet .
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