Brief Life History of Katherine Belle
When Katherine Belle Sanger was born on 11 April 1874, in Chardon, Geauga, Ohio, United States, her father, Charles A. Sanger, was 35 and her mother, Elizabeth A. Young, was 33. She married Murray Charles Eldredge on 7 August 1898. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. She died on 20 November 1949, in Oak Park, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Chardon, Geauga, Ohio, United States.
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- Kittie S Eldredge in household of John Crowell, "United States Census, 1910"
- K. B. Sanger, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Kittie B. Sanger, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1885 · The World's First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
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
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) (Sänger); Dutch: from Middle High German senger, Middle Dutch sangher, sengher, German Sänger ‘singer’, an occupational name for a singer or chorister, or in the case of the Jewish name for a cantor in a synagogue. Compare Saenger and Senger .
English (Wiltshire): occupational name for a singer or chorister, or else a nickname for a cheerful person who is always singing, from Middle English sangere (Old English sangere) ‘singer’. See also Sang 3, Sangster , Songer , and Singer .
History: The Sangers of MA are descended from Richard Sanger, who settled as a blacksmith in Sudbury, MA, in 1646.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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