Brief Life History of Gertrude Arena
When Gertrude Arena Giles was born on 5 January 1880, in Warren Township, Marion, Indiana, United States, her father, Gentry Giles, was 60 and her mother, Cassie Ellen Meeks, was 39. She married Walter Washington Finfrock on 19 September 1905, in Warren Township, Marion, Indiana, United States. She lived in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States in 1920 and Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States in 1930. She died on 21 January 1934, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Gertrude Finfrock in household of Walter W Finfrock, "United States Census, 1930"
- Gertrude Arena Finfrock, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Gertrude A Giles, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1881 · Construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway
Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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