Brief Life History of William Henry
When William Henry Taylor Sr was born on 6 October 1882, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, Richard Francis Taylor, was 31 and his mother, Geneveive Lavinia "Jennie" McGuire, was 29. He married Jessie May O'Neill Taylor on 30 June 1909, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1900 and Detroit Ward 16, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920. He died on 5 May 1940, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 57.
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- William Taylor, „United States Census, 1940“
- William Henry Taylor, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Wm H. Taylor, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1885 · The World's First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
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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