Brief Life History of Carrie Edythe
When Carrie Edythe Duncan was born on 25 August 1894, in Patoka Township, Gibson, Indiana, United States, her father, William Blair Duncan, was 43 and her mother, Alice May Buckner, was 33. She married John Hesley on 7 June 1912, in Traverse City, Grand Traverse, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Wilmington Township, DeKalb, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Union Township, DeKalb, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 25 August 1967, in Garrett, DeKalb, Indiana, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Tamarack Cemetery, Waterloo, Grant Township, DeKalb, Indiana, United States.
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- Edythe D Strong, "United States 1950 Census"
- Duncan, "Indiana Births and Christenings, 1773-1933"
- Edythe D Hesley, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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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.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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