Brief Life History of William L
When William L Cunningham was born on 4 April 1865, in Bolivar, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Clark Cunningham, was 21 and his mother, Martha A. "Mattie" McClarren, was 21. He married Minerva J. Rager on 31 May 1898, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States. He lived in Sublette, Lee, Illinois, United States in 1870 and New Florence, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 24 March 1935, in Duquesne, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Blairsville, Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- William Cunningham, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Cunningham - Government record: Census record: birth-name: William Cunningham
- William L. Cuningham, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
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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