Brief Life History of Gladys Leona
When Gladys Leona Short was born on 30 January 1905, in Kansas, United States, her father, Charles Ruben Short, was 32 and her mother, Louisa Ellen Hight, was 32. She married Harold Grant Brannan on 27 November 1922, in Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Majestic Election Precinct, Douglas, Washington, United States in 1940 and Okanogan, Okanogan, Washington, United States for about 1 years. She died in May 1984, in Saint John, Whitman, Washington, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Blue Mountain Memorial Garden, College Place, Walla Walla, Washington, United States.
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- Gladys Brannan, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Gladys L. Short - Government record: Death record or certificate: birth-name: Gladys L. Short
- Gladys Brannan, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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.
1907 · Pike's Market
Pike’s Market is one of the oldest still working farmer’s markets in the US. It is located in Seattle’s central business district, just north of Belltown , and southwest of central waterfront and Elliott Bay. One of the attractions there is the gum wall.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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