Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Brody was born on 29 November 1893, in Kyiv, Ukraine, her father, Max Brody, was 34 and her mother, Rebecca Dash, was 30. She married Irving Goodwin on 10 June 1917, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1920 and Queens, New York, United States in 1930. She died on 28 May 1979, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.
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- Elizabeth Goodwin, "United States 1950 Census"
- Marriage Index for Elizabeth Brody and Irving Goodwin
- Elizabeth Goodwin, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1895 · College Hall Catches on Fire
On January 27, 1895, College Hall catches on fire and is fully consumed within one hour. During the fire, many students and faculty work together to save many of the items in the building. Some of these are library books. They save the books by piling them onto the rugs and dragging them out of the burning building. College Hall is then later rebuilt and renamed Davis Hall after Governor John W. Davis.
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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Emanuel, Avrohom, Moshe, Gershon, Hyman, Isadore, Mendle, Chana, Eluzer, Feivel.
Scottish: variant of Brodie .
Hungarian (Bródy) and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of the many towns and cities in central and eastern Europe named with Slavic brod ‘fort’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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