Brief Life History of Clara Olive
When Clara Olive Leonard was born on 18 October 1889, in Macksburg, Madison, Iowa, United States, her father, Arthur Leonard, was 36 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Bassett, was 38. She married Guy Earnest Beedy on 5 April 1914, in Denver, Colorado, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Lincoln, Colorado, United States in 1920 and Otis, Washington, Colorado, United States in 1950. She died on 1 June 1972, in Akron, Washington, Colorado, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Walks Camp, Limon, Lincoln, Colorado, United States.
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- Clara C Beede in household of Guy Beede, "United States Census, 1920"
- Clara Olive Leonard, "Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950"
- Clara Beedy, "Colorado Statewide Marriage Index, 1853-2006"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Gold is Discovered
In 1890, Robert Miller Womack discovers a rich gold deposit along Cripple Creek, near the western slope of Pikes Peak. This would become the richest gold strike in the Rocky Mountin area.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Name Meaning
English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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