Brief Life History of Edna Miller
When Edna Miller Porterfield was born on 14 November 1873, in Spring Valley, Bureau, Illinois, United States, her father, James Elmer Porterfield, was 24 and her mother, Icedora Miller, was 22. She married Charles Albert Brown on 22 September 1892, in Bureau, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Dixie, Callaway, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Pottersville, Callaway, Missouri, United States in 1930. She died on 14 March 1948, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States, at the age of 74.
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- Edna M Brown, "United States Census, 1920"
- Edna M Brown, "United States Census, 1930"
- Edna M Porterfield in household of J E Porterfield, "United States Census, 1880"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1880
Historical Boundaries: 1880: Callaway, Missouri, United States
1893 · The World's Columbian Exposition
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English porter(e) ‘gatekeeper, doorkeeper’ + feld ‘open country, bounded piece of land’, referring to the hereditary lands owned by a porter of a monastery (see Porter 1), taken as a surname by the descendants of such an official. Black suggests that they would originally have been known as Porter but extended their name when ‘territorial surnames’ became fashionable.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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