Brief Life History of Blanche Edna
When Blanche Edna Fisher was born on 31 July 1894, in Eagle, Ada, Idaho, United States, her father, George Calvin Fisher, was 44 and her mother, Ella Edna Fahrney, was 37. She married Joseph William Cullen in 1917, in Ada, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Green Meadow Election Precinct, Ada, Idaho, United States in 1940 and Ada, Idaho, United States in 1950. She died on 3 September 1990, in Idaho, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in Dry Creek Cemetery, Ada, Idaho, United States.
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- Blanch Cullen, "United States 1950 Census"
- Blanche Edna Fisher, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
- Mrs Blanche Cullen in entry for Bryan L Fisher, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fisherman, from Middle English fis(sc)her(e) ‘fisherman’ (Old English fiscere). In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates from many other languages, including German Fischer and its Slavic(ized) variant Fišer (see Fiser ), Dutch Visser , Hungarian Halász (see Halasz ), Italian Pescatore , Slovenian Ribič (see Ribic ), and Croatian Ribić or Ribar .
English: in a few cases, possibly a topographic name for someone who lived near a fish weir on a river, from Middle English fis(sc)hwere, fisshyar ‘fish weir’ (Old English fiscwer, fiscgear), or a habitational name from a place so named, such as Fisher in North Mundham, Sussex.
Irish: translation into English of Gaelic Ó Bradáin ‘descendant of Bradán’, a personal name meaning ‘salmon’. See Braden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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