Brief Life History of Evelyn Margaret
When Evelyn Margaret Taylor was born on 7 December 1897, in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, her father, George W Taylor, was 22 and her mother, Beatrice Augusta Trimmer, was 21. She married Henry Archibald Twine on 4 September 1918, in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1901. She died on 20 March 1924, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 26, and was buried in Saint Thomas, Ontario, Canada.
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- Evilyn Taylor in household of George Taylor, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Aveline Taylor, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Evelyn Margaret Taylor, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1904 · Belle Isle Aquarium
The Belle Isle Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Belle Isle Park in Detroit. It opened on August 18, 1904, and was the oldest continually operating public aquarium in North America when it closed on April 3, 2005. The aquarium reopened to the public on August 18, 2012, and is now run entirely by volunteers
1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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