When Edward Henry Prudhomme was born on 6 February 1876, in Eunice, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, his father, Ulysses A Prudhomme, was 39 and his mother, Uranie Marsh, was 27. He married Leila Anna Miller on 30 April 1901, in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, United States in 1910 and Marshall, Harrison, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 1 June 1954, in Shreveport, Caddo, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in De Berry, Panola, Texas, United States.
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Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: French Lucien, Aime, Alcide, Alphonse, Andre, Armand, Dominique, Gilles, Henri, Hilaire, Jacques, Jean Pierre.
French (also Prud’homme): nickname from Old French preud’homme ‘honest, wise, loyal man’, a compound of Old French proz, prod ‘good’, with the vowel influenced by crossing with prudentwise, + homme ‘man’. This surname is also found in Britain. Compare Prudom .
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