Brief Life History of Edward Harrison
When Edward Harrison Powley was born on 20 April 1879, in Clarkson, Monroe, New York, United States, his father, William Powley, was 36 and his mother, Mary Catherine Ransom, was 31. He married Elizabeth Harmer Randle on 14 November 1904, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in United States in 1949 and Maplewood, Maplewood Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States in 1950. He died on 23 April 1957, in Orange, Essex, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in North Ridge Cemetery, North Ridge, Niagara, New York, United States.
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- Edward H Powley, "United States 1950 Census"
- Edward Harrison Powley, "Pennsylvania Civil Marriages, 1677-1950"
- Edward Harrison Powley, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1881
John Philip Holland was an inventor famous for designing the world's first submarines. After previous designs were rejected, Holland eventually received funding from the Fenians for a short time. In 1881, the Fenian Ram was launched into the Passaic River in northern New Jersey, marking the first successful submarine launch in the world.
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Norfolk): perhaps a shortened form of Powling, either a nickname for someone with a distinctive head or hair or who had a shaved head (from an unrecorded Middle English polling, a derivative of Middle English polle ‘head, hair of the head’ or pollen ‘to cut (hair), shave (someone's head)’ + the noun-forming suffix -ing); or a habitational name from Poling in Sussex; or a variant of Pullan and Pullen .
Probably an altered form of German Pauli or Pauly .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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