Brief Life History of America ELLA
When America ELLA Prior was born on 22 May 1882, in Lebanon, Linn, Oregon, United States, her father, John Caffra Prior, was 39 and her mother, Mary Frances Burtenshaw, was 31. She married James ANDREW Densmore on 25 December 1900, in Lebanon, Linn, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Shelburn Election Precinct, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Linn, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 11 May 1974, in Lebanon, Linn, Oregon, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in IOOF Cemetery, Lebanon, Linn, Oregon, United States.
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Sources (15)
- Ella A Densmore, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: America Ellen Prior\Pryor - birth: 22 May 1882; Lebanon, Linn, Oregon, United States
- Ella Densmore, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1898 · Oregon Historical Society
The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English (southern), Scottish, Dutch, and German: ultimately from Latin prior ‘superior’, used to denote a prior, a monastic official immediately subordinate to an abbot, hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble a prior.
Irish: Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Mac an Phríora ‘son of the prior’ (this is the usual origin in counties Cavan and Leitrim). Some examples may be Anglo-Norman, the same name as in 1 above.
Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan: from prior, probably denoting someone in the service of a prior or a nickname for someone who behaved in a pompous way.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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