When Harold Sidwell Taylor was born on 1 March 1896, in Sylmar, Cecil, Maryland, United States, his father, Orion Lindel Taylor, was 36 and his mother, Mary W Paul, was 31. He married Elizabeth Louise Ford in 1919, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in District 9, Cecil, Maryland, United States in 1930 and Washington, District of Columbia, United States for about 5 years. He died on 10 April 1966, in Rising Sun, Cecil, Maryland, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Brick Meeting House Cemetery, Calvert, Cecil, Maryland, United States.
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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.
A demonstration for women's suffrage takes place on March 3, 1913. This is the first suffrage parade in Washington D.C. One of the notable women in attendance is Ida B. Wells.
On July 2, 1915 an angry, former Harvard professor, Erich Muenter, places a homemade bomb in the Senate Reception Room. He was upset about the private sales of US munitions to the allies during the war.
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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