Brief Life History of Katherine Susan
When Katherine Susan Taylor was born on 23 February 1880, in Mackinac Island, Mackinac, Michigan, United States, her father, William Henry Taylor, was 36 and her mother, Jane Harriet Ranville, was 29. She married George Wellington LaPine on 26 December 1898, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 26 April 1965, in Mackinac Island, Mackinac, Michigan, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Saint Ann's Cemetery, Mackinac Island, Mackinac, Michigan, United States.
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- Katherine S Lapine, "United States 1950 Census"
- Catherine Taylor, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Unknown Unknown in entry for George C. Lapine, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1899
The Michigan Legislature created the City of Mackinac Island on June 9, 1899, via act 437 as a special charter city, combining the Township of Holmes and Village of Mackinac. At that time, all of nearby Round Island was included in the corporate limits, for reasons not clear today. Round Island is owned and overseen by the United States Forest Service in its entirety, and is managed as part of the Round Island Wilderness Area and the Hiawatha National Forest. The city limits include all of Mackinac Island State Park, which area makes up 82 percent of Mackinac Island; it is governed by the Mackinac Island State Park Commission.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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