Brief Life History of Albert Harper
When Albert Harper Day was born in 1856, in Dalton, Coös, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Morrill Curtis Day, was 25 and his mother, Lucinda Jane Staples, was 23. He married Mary Ellen Morgan on 7 February 1884, in Duval, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Union, Rock, Wisconsin, United States in 1920 and Evansville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 3 January 1933, in Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Rock, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Albert Day in household of Morril C Day, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Albert Harper Day - Government record: Census record: birth: November 1856; New Hampshire, United States
- Albert H. Day, "Florida, County Marriages, 1830-1957"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English day(e), dey(e) ‘dairyman or dairymaid’. Originally used only of women, it was later used of men with the sense ‘man in charge of the dairy cattle’. This is probably the most common source of the surname.
English: from the Middle English personal name Day(e) or Dey. In western England this is probably a pet form of David , but in northern England and perhaps elsewhere also it is a late Middle English variant of Daw, a pet form of Ralph (see Daw , Dakin ).
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deaghaidh (see O'Dea ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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