Brief Life History of Walter Alexander
When Walter Alexander Hunt was born on 10 April 1892, in Rhode Island, United States, his father, George William Hunt, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Jane Anderson, was 36. He married Bridget Theresa Gillerlane Moran on 23 November 1914, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He lived in Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States for about 18 years.
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- Walter A Hunt in household of George W Hunt, "United States Census, 1910"
- Walter Alexandra Hunt, "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Walter Alexander Hunt, "Rhode Island Town Marriages Index, 1639-1916"
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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.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English (southwestern): occupational name for a hunter, from Middle English hunte ‘hunter, huntsman’ (Old English hunta). The term was used not only of the hunting on horseback of game such as stags and wild boars, which in the Middle Ages was a pursuit restricted to the ranks of the nobility, but also to much humbler forms of pursuit such as bird catching and poaching for food. The word seems also to have been used as an Old English personal name and to have survived into the Middle Ages as an occasional personal name. Compare Huntington and Huntley .
Irish: adopted for various Irish surnames containing or thought to contain the Gaelic element fiadhach ‘hunt’; for example Ó Fiaich (see Fee ) and Ó Fiachna (see Fenton ).
Possibly an Americanized form of German Hundt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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