Brief Life History of Andrew William
When Andrew William Dowd was born on 7 March 1869, in Waterford, Racine, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Thomas James Dowd, was 29 and his mother, Mary Jane Malone, was 23. He married Frances Spencer Marden on 8 June 1901, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1926 and lived in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1930 and Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 29 August 1942, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Andrew Dowd in household of T J Dowd, "Nebraska, State Census, 1885"
- Andrew W Dowd, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Andrew W. Dowd, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
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.
1870 · P.T. Barnum's Circus Established in Wisconsin
P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome was established in Delavan, Wisconsin in 1870.
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
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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