When Ida Fitzpatrick was born about 1876, in Illinois, United States, her father, Francis Asbury Fitzpatrick, was 23 and her mother, Emma Elizabeth Stevens, was 21. She lived in Shiloh Township, Edgar, Illinois, United States in 1880.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Kieran, Declan, Ronan, Liam, Seamus, Sinead, Siobhan, Aileen, Bridie, Brigid, Conan.
Irish: occasionally this may be a genuine Anglo-Norman French patronymic meaning ‘son of Patrick ’, but more often it has been adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Pádraig, ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) Patrick’ (see Kilpatrick ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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