When Willis Alfred Terry was born on 29 April 1885, in Broome, New York, United States, his father, Alfred Reed Terry, was 25 and his mother, Emma J. Truesdell, was 20. He married Maud E Tiffany on 15 November 1910, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Deposit, Sanford, Broome, New York, United States in 1905 and Colchester, Delaware, New York, United States for about 20 years. He died on 24 June 1969, in Hancock, Delaware, New York, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Lord Family Cemetery, East Jewett, Greene, New York, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
English and Irish: from the Norman personal name T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), a short form of Theodoric, which is composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people, race’ + rīc ‘power(ful), rich’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was sometimes taken as a derivative of Greek Theodōros (see Theodore ). An Anglo-Norman family of this name has been in County Cork, Ireland, since the 13th century.
Irish: sometimes an Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley ).
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