Brief Life History of Eugenie
When Eugenie Rivet was born on 29 July 1859, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, her father, Edward Rivet, was 31 and her mother, Philomene Marcotte, was 22. She married Rodolphe M. Desjardins on 22 July 1885, in Cook, Illinois, United States. She lived in Repentigny, L'Assomption, Quebec, Canada in 1881 and Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 7 May 1909, in Kosciusko, Indiana, United States, at the age of 49.
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- Eugenie Desjardins in household of R Desjardins, "United States Census, 1900"
- Eugenie Rivet, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
- Eugenie M. Rivet in entry for Arthur J. Des Jardines, "Illinois, Cook County Birth Registers, 1871-1915"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French Marcel, Pierre, Aldor, Camille, Gilles, Gillis, Henri, Huguette, Landry, Laurent, Normand, Pierrette.
French: topographic name for someone who lived on the bank of a river or the shore of a lake, from a diminutive of Old French rive ‘(river) bank, shore’ (from Latin ripa); or a habitational name from (Le) Rivet, the name of several places in various parts of France. Compare Rivest and Rivette .
English: variant of Rivett .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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