Brief Life History of Alice Gertrude
When Alice Gertrude Strout was born on 4 March 1870, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Andrew J. Strout, was 37 and her mother, Aravesta Johanna Grover, was 29. She married Joseph W Jenkins on 15 September 1891, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Stoughton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years.
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- Jenkins Jenkins, "United States Census, 1900"
- Alice Gertrude Strout, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Alice G. Strout, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1872 · The Amnesty Act
A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for an argumentative person, from Middle English strout, strut ‘strife, dispute, debate’ (Old English strūt).
English: from the Old Norse personal name Strútr, Strut, apparently a nickname from strútr ‘pointed hood’ (referring to a cone-like ornament on a headdress or cap).
Possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch Stroet: habitational name from Stroet in North Holland or a topographic name from Dutch stroet ‘brush, thicket, swamp’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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