Brief Life History of Isabel Adelia
When Isabel Adelia Duckworth was born on 23 December 1879, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, James Duckworth, was 37 and her mother, Anna Eliza Grannis, was 32. She married Edward Knight Allen on 31 August 1903, in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont, United States in 1910 and Monson, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1920. She died on 2 May 1931, in Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Isabel Allen in household of Edward Allen, "United States Census, 1920"
- Duckworth, "Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915"
- Isabel Adelia Duckworth Allen, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire): habitational name from Duckworth, in the borough of Bury, Lancashire, which is named from Old English dūce ‘duck’ + worth ‘enclosure’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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