Brief Life History of Nettie May
When Nettie May Duncan was born in 1873, in Illinois, United States, her father, James Monroe Duncan, was 20 and her mother, Mary Alice Garner, was 20. She had at least 7 sons and 2 daughters with Clark M Moore. She lived in Maple Township, Monona, Iowa, United States in 1885 and Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States in 1910. She died on 18 September 1945, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States.
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- Nettie Moore in household of C M Moore, "United States Census, 1910"
- Nettie Duncon, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Nettie Duncan in entry for Jess Moore, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
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.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from the Older Scots personal name Dunecan, itself from the traditional Irish royal name Donnchad(h), derived from donn ‘brown-haired’ + cath ‘battle’. Judging by the Scots form, the Scottish Gaelic intermediary seems to have been understood as containing ceann ‘head’, as if the whole name meant ‘brown head’; compare sense 2. In Ireland the name was Anglicized as Donagh or Donaghue. Compare Donahue .
Irish: used as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnchinn ‘descendant of Donncheann’, a byname composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + ceann ‘head’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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