When Arthur A McCurdy was born on 26 November 1874, in Warwick Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Thomas W. McCurdy, was 24 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Myers, was 21. He married Susan E Habecker in 1899. He lived in Warwick, Warwick Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Uwchlan Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 25 February 1959, in Exeter Township, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
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.
Scottish and Irish (Antrim): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Mhuircheartaich or Mac Mhuircheartaigh, a patronymic from Muircheartach, a personal name composed of the elements muir ‘sea’ + ceartach ‘ruler’, hence ‘skilled seaman’. See also McCord 1 and compare Moriarty .
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