Mary Frances Dowd

Brief Life History of Mary Frances

When Mary Frances Dowd was born on 3 July 1904, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Andrew William Dowd, was 35 and her mother, Frances Spencer Marden, was 28. She lived in Sunnyside, Carbon, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 30 October 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 14, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Andrew William Dowd
1869–1942
Frances Spencer Marden
1876–1947
Alice Davis
1902–
Mary Frances Dowd
1904–1918
Margaret Louise Dowd
1908–1967
Andrew William Dowd Jr
1912–1961
Thomas Dowd
1913–1929

Sources (11)

  • Mary F Dowd in household of Andrew W Dowd, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Dowd, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
  • Mary Frances Dowd, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956"

World Events (8)

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.

1908 · The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot

Being listed on the National Register of Historic Places, The Salt Lake City Union Pacific Depot dates to the more prosperous era in the history of American railroad travel. Originally called the Union Station, it was jointly constructed by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroads and the Oregon Short Line. The platforms behind the station ran north-to-south, parallel to the first main line built in the Salt Lake Valley. When Amtrak was formed in 1971, it took over the passenger services at the station, but all trains were moved to the Rio Grande station after it joined Amtrak. In January 2006, The Depot was opened as a shopping center that housed shops, restaurants and music venues.

1909 · The NAACP is formed

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Cathal, Dermot, Liam, Seamus, Siobhan.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhda ‘descendant of Dubhda’, a byname derived from dubh ‘dark, black’. The family were chieftains in Sligo and Mayo. The surname in northern England seems to have come from the Isle of Man.

English: from the Middle English personal name Doude, perhaps a side-form of either Dodde (see Dodd and compare Dowding ), or of Daude, a pet form of Ralph (see Dawson and Dowson ). A nickname from Middle English doude ‘shabby, unattractive woman’ is formally also possible but seems unlikely to have become a hereditary surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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