When Alice Matilda Taylor was born on 11 February 1857, in Consumnes, Sacramento, California, United States, her father, William Humphrey Taylor, was 21 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Rhoads, was 16. She married Drury Sidney Gorman on 20 January 1877, in Lampasas, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in San Juan, Grant, New Mexico, United States in 1900 and Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. She died on 1 June 1936, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1868: Grant, New Mexico Territory, United States 1912: Grant, New Mexico, United States
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.
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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