Brief Life History of Frank Harmon
When Frank Harmon Longacre was born on 17 August 1887, in Saint Charles, Kane, Illinois, United States, his father, Dr Harmon Yerkes Longacre, was 33 and his mother, Nettie Bell Norton, was 27. He married Edna Marie Halstead on 10 June 1914, in Oak Park, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died in 1972, in Saint Charles, Kane, Illinois, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in North Cemetery, Saint Charles Township, Kane, Illinois, United States.
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- Frank Longacre, "United States Census, 1940"
- Frank Harmon Longacre, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Frank H Longacre, "Illinois, Cook County Marriages, 1871-1920"
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Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English lang, long ‘long’ + aker, acre ‘piece of tilled land’, or a habitational name from any of various minor places so named, such as Long Acre Farm, Tyne and Wear, or Long Acres Farm in North Yorkshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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