Brief Life History of Lizzie May
When Lizzie May Gordon was born on 21 May 1882, in Marion Township, Pike, Ohio, United States, her father, Theodore V. Gordon, was 22 and her mother, Caroline Matilda Dewey, was 20. She married Alva Crabtree Daniels on 18 September 1900, in Scioto, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Rural, Clermont, Ohio, United States in 1935 and Jerome Township, Union, Ohio, United States in 1940. She died on 15 August 1972, in Madison, Ohio, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Plain City, Madison, Ohio, United States.
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Sources (13)
- Lizzie Daniels in household of Alva Daniels, "United States Census, 1940"
- Lizzie M. Gordon, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Lizzie May Gordon, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
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
Scottish: habitational name from Gordon in Berwickshire, named with Welsh gor ‘spacious’ + din ‘fort’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Gourdon in Saône-et-Loire, so called from the Gallo-Roman personal name Gordus + the locative suffix -o, -ōnis.
English (of Norman origin): alternatively, said to be a nickname from a diminutive of Old French gourd ‘heavy, dull, sluggish’ (compare 8 below).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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