Brief Life History of Donna Eloise
When Donna Eloise Taylor was born on 26 June 1864, in Orchard Park, Orchard Park, Erie, New York, United States, her father, Job Taylor, was 32 and her mother, Donna Byance Potter, was 42. She married Dr. William Harvey Thornton about 1885, in Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in East Hamburg, Erie, New York, United States for about 15 years. She died on 20 March 1897, in Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States, at the age of 32, and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, Erie, New York, United States.
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- Eloise Taylor in household of Job Taylor, "United States Census, 1870"
- Donna Eloise Thornton, "Find A Grave Index"
- Eloise Taylor in entry for Alice Thornton, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
While attending the play "Our American Cousin" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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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