Brief Life History of Emily Viola
When Emily Viola Haney was born on 8 May 1887, in Washington, Washington, Utah, United States, her father, Eveline Haney, was 34 and her mother, Melvina Arethusa Jolley, was 23. She married David Benjamin Hartley on 8 November 1903, in Clay, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in Lansing, New Hope, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. She died in May 1935, at the age of 48.
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- Viola E Edwards in household of John C Donlay, "United States Census, 1930"
- Viola E Haney, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Viola Haney in entry for Dorthy May Hartley, "Arizona, Birth Certificates, 1909-1917"
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World Events (8)
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.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Scottish or Irish: perhaps a variant of Irish Heaney .
Americanized form of Norwegian Hanøy, a habitational name from any of the four farmsteads so named, from Old Norse hathna ‘young nanny-goat’ or hani ‘cock’ (probably indicating a crag or mountain resembling a cock's comb in shape) + øy ‘island’.
Americanized form of any of several like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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