Brief Life History of Alfred Leonard
When Alfred Leonard Looney was born on 23 December 1891, in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States, his father, William Edward Looney, was 34 and his mother, Jessie Or Josephine Schanzenbacher, was 29. He married Hannah Jane Eldredge on 27 October 1914, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Salisbury Township, Rowan, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 31 March 1981, in La Habra, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 89.
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- Alfred L Looney, "United States 1950 Census"
- Alfred Leonard Looney, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Alfred Looney, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1902 · Montana Capital Building Completed
Construction started on the Montana state capital in 1899. In 1902 the capital was completed.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Irish (Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Luanaigh ‘descendant of Luanach’, a personal name derived from luan ‘warrior’. Compare Lane 3 and Lamb 3. Woulfe distinguishes the Munster name Ó Luanaigh from the Ulster name Ó Luinigh, whence Lunney . However, many of the Anglicized forms are the same.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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