Brief Life History of James Earl
When James Earl Haley was born on 26 July 1903, his father, James Patterson Haley, was 22 and his mother, Marilla May Porch, was 20. He married Lucy Nelson on 27 January 1934, in Missoula, Montana, United States. He lived in Township 4 Stevens, Ravalli, Montana, United States in 1910 and Stevensville, Ravalli, Montana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 30 September 1991, in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, California, United States, at the age of 88.
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- E James Haley in household of P James Haley, "United States Census, 1930"
- James E. Haley, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- James Earl Haley, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Hailey (Oxfordshire), Heylee in Chapel en le Frith (Derbyshire), Haley in Northowram (Yorkshire), or one or other of the places called Highley in Parracombe and Upottery (Devon). All the placenames derive from Old English hēg ‘hay’ + Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’, except Highley in Upottery, whose first element may be Old English hēah ‘high’.
English (southeastern): aspirated pronunciation of Ayley, a variant of Aylett .
Irish: adopted form of Mac Céile, see McHale .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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