Brief Life History of James Edgar Rutler
When James Edgar Rutler Barnes was born on 26 April 1876, in Rahway, Union, New Jersey, United States, his father, Edward James Barnes, was 26 and his mother, Emma Louise Mead, was 21. He married Sadie L Cramer on 5 August 1901. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Binghamton, Broome, New York, United States in 1880 and Hyattsville, Prince George's, Maryland, United States in 1910. He died on 27 September 1917, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Glenwood Heights, Talbot, Maryland, United States.
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Sources (6)
- James Barnes in household of Edward Barnes, "United States Census, 1880"
- Family Bible marriage record
- James R Barnes in entry for Norma Hen Bartholomew, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1879
Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1887 · Monotype Type-Casting Machine
June 7, 1887, Tolbert Lanston patented his Monotype machine. It typed individual characters instead of lines like the Linotype machine.
1888 · Washington Monument Completed
The Washington Monument designed by Robert Mills, was completed and opens to the public on October 9, 1888.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Barnes (on the Surrey bank of the Thames in London), named with Old English bere-ærn ‘barn, a storehouse for barley and other grain’, or a topographic name or metonymic occupational name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn or barns, from Middle English barn ‘barn, granary’.
English: variant of Barne, with excrescent -s, derived from either the Middle English personal name Bern, Barn (based on the Scandinavian personal name Biǫrn or Old English Beorn, both from a word meaning ‘warrior’), or from Middle English barn (Old Norse barn) ‘child’. The latter term is found as a byname for men of the upper classes; it might also have had the meaning ‘young man of a prominent family’, like Middle English child (see Child ).
Irish: in Ireland in many cases this is no doubt the English name, but in others it is possibly an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Bearáin ‘descendant of Bearán’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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