When Bessie Louise Pelton was born on 24 May 1885, in Southbridge, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Frank Lincoln Pelton, was 19 and her mother, Lucy Jane West, was 19. She married Edwin Allen Porter on 3 October 1904, in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 16 December 1938, in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: habitational name from Pelton, a place in County Durham,named from an unattested Old English personal name Pēola +tūn ‘farmstead, settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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