Brief Life History of Isabelle
When Isabelle Sweet was born on 2 April 1876, in Greenfield, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, Philander Sweet, was 53 and her mother, Abigail Daniels, was 38. She married George Jesse Houghton on 4 October 1893, in Redford, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Detroit Ward 22, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940 and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950. She died on 14 May 1976, in Farmington, Oakland, Michigan, United States, at the age of 100, and was buried in Grand Lawn Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- Isabella Houghton, "United States 1950 Census"
- Isabella Sweet, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Isabella Sweet, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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World Events (8)
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.
1881 · Center of Stove Manufacturing
"During the late 19th century, cast-iron stove manufacturing became Detroit's top industry and later the city received the nickname, ""Stove Capital of the World."""
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English (Somerset): from the Middle English personal name Swet(e) (Old English Swēt(a) (male), Swēte (female)), or else a nickname from Middle English swet(e), sweyt ‘sweet; pleasing; beloved; attractive’ (Old English swēte, swōt), from which the personal names derive. Compare Swett .
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Suess and French Ledoux ‘the gentle, the sweet’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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