Edith Leola Quigley

Brief Life History of Edith Leola

When Edith Leola Quigley was born on 27 June 1904, in Wamego, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States, her father, Robert Joseph Quigley, was 46 and her mother, Anna Clarissa Thomas, was 35. She married Paul S White in 1927, in Jackson, Missouri, United States. She lived in Saint George, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States in 1910. She died on 10 February 1997, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 92.

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Family Time Line

Paul S White
1904–
Edith Leola Quigley
1904–1997
Marriage: 1927

Sources (9)

  • Edith L White, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Edith Leola Quigley - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Edith Leola Quigley
  • Edith L Quigley, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"

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World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1927 · Kansas Adopts a Flag

The flag of the State of Kansas was adopted on September 24, 1927. The flag was designed by Hazel Avery in 1925.

1929

13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Declan, Eamonn, Cathal, Clancy, Colm, Fionnuala, James Patrick, John Patrick, Kiera, Kieran.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Coigligh ‘descendant of Coigleach’, a byname apparently representing a simplified form of coigealach ‘like a distaff, untidy person’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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