Brief Life History of Katharine E.
When Katharine E. Stockwell was born in 1865, in Wisconsin, United States, her father, Ira Stockwell, was 42 and her mother, Mary Jane Smith, was 22. She married William O'Herron about 1879, in Park, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Meagher, Montana, United States in 1870 and Park, Montana, United States for about 10 years. She died in 1946, in Sheridan, Montana, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Kate Stockwell in household of Ira Stockwell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Kate Ohern in entry for Grant C. Lewis and Ethel May Magee, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- Cathrine Magee in household of Elias T Magee, "United States Census, 1910"
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World Events (8)
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1887
Historical Boundaries 1887: Park, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Park, Montana, United States
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from any of various places called Stockwell, including Stockwell in Lambeth (Surrey) and Stockwell in Cowley (Gloucestershire), from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
perhaps sometimes in northern England a variant of Stockill, a habitational name from Stockeld in Spofforth (Worth Yorkshire) and perhaps also Stockheld Grange in Barwick in Elmet (Yorkshire). The placenames derive from Old English stocc ‘tree trunk, stump’ + helde ‘slope’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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