When Mary Jane Tower was born on 16 July 1824, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Joshua Tower, was 33 and her mother, Anna Hersey, was 36. She married Edwin Barker Whitcomb on 16 January 1848, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1901. She died on 28 June 1881, in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in High Street Cemetery, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, usually a defensive fortification or watchtower, from Middle English, Old French tūr (from Latin turris).
English: occupational name for someone who dressed white leather, cured with alum rather than tanned with bark, from an agent derivative of Middle English taw(en) (Old English tawian ‘to prepare, make ready’).
Americanized form of German Tauer .
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