Brief Life History of Clara Rhoda
When Clara Rhoda Taylor was born on 25 December 1864, in Hawley, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, her father, George Howard Taylor, was 47 and her mother, Rhoda Marie Parker, was 42. She married David Wilmot Porter on 1 January 1889, in Walworth, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Walworth, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States for about 5 years and Dania Beach, Broward, Florida, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 November 1953, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Lake Geneva, Walworth, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Clara R Porter in household of David W Porter, "United States Census, 1920"
- Clara Rhoda Taylor, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
- Clara Rhoda Taylor Porter, "Find A Grave Index"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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