Brief Life History of Robert Irvin
When Robert Irvin Cunningham was born on 21 August 1869, in Lee, Illinois, United States, his father, Clark Cunningham, was 25 and his mother, Martha A. "Mattie" McClarren, was 25. He had at least 1 son with Sarah "Sally" McGuire. He lived in New Florence, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 17 December 1947, in Coatesville, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Wilkinsburg, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- R J Cunningham, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Herbron Irvin Cunningham - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Herbron Irvin Cunningham
- Robert I Cunnigham in the Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the province of Cunningham in Ayrshire, first recorded in 1153 in the form Cunegan, a Celtic name of uncertain origin. The spellings in -ham, first recorded in 1180, and in -ynghame, first recorded in 1227, represent a gradual assimilation to the English placename element -ingham.
Irish: surname adopted from Gaelic Ó Cuinneagáin ‘descendant of Cuinneagán’, a personal name from a double diminutive of the Old Irish personal name Conn meaning ‘leader, chief’. This name is also adopted for Ó Connacháin, a variant of Ó Connagáin ‘descendant of Connagán’, from a diminutive of the personal name Conn.
History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Wernebald de Cunynghame, who was granted the manor of Cunningham by Hugh de Morville in the early 12th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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