Brief Life History of Alice Margaret
When Alice Margaret Peterson was born on 7 May 1863, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, her father, Ferdinand Peterson, was 32 and her mother, Mary Ann Russell, was 17. She married John Bain Carruthers on 17 March 1884. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Madison Township, Madison, Montana, United States in 1870 and Union Township, Madison, Montana, United States in 1900. She died on 14 November 1950, in Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Helena, Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States.
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- Alice Carruthers in household of Jas H Duff, "United States Census, 1910"
- Alice Carruthers, "Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004"
- Alice M Peterson, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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1864
Historical Boundaries 1864: Deer Lodge, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Deer Lodge, Montana Territory, United States 1867: Edgerton, Montana Territory, United States 1868: Lewis and Clark, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Lewis and Clark, Montana, United States
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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