Brief Life History of Joseph Henry
When Joseph Henry Unsworth was born on 1 April 1864, in Carnforth, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Unsworth, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Robinson, was 30. He married Mary E Sowden on 21 July 1890, in Calumet, Houghton, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Warton, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died on 18 March 1926, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Oakridge Cemetery, Hillside, Proviso Township, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Joseph Unsworth, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
- Joseph Henry, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
- Joseph H. Unsnorth, "Michigan, Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
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 (Lancashire): habitational name from Unsworth (Lancashire), recorded as Hundeswrth in 1291. This name was easily confused with Hunsworth in Yorkshire, since they shared the same etymology, ‘Hund's enclosure or settlement’ (from the Old English personal name Hund ‘dog’ + Old English worth ‘enclosure’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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