Brief Life History of George Wiliam
When George Wiliam Giles Jr was born on 28 January 1900, in Munhall, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George William Giles, was 39 and his mother, Mary Frances McCurdy, was 34. He married Agnes Susan Lyle on 14 February 1928, in Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Mifflin Township, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900 and Homestead, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 29 October 1963, in Clairton, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Pleasant Hills, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- George R. Giles in household of Jennie E. Evans, "United States Census, 1900"
- George W. Giles Jr., "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
- George William Giles, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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