Katherine Hall

Brief Life History of Katherine

When Katherine Hall was born on 9 September 1876, in Fort Dodge, Webster, Iowa, United States, her father, Manville Jones Hall, was 29 and her mother, Margaret Jane Baine, was 24. She married Leon Mayhue on 10 June 1895, in Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1950. She died on 10 October 1952, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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John Edmund Hornung
1873–1935
Katherine Hall
1876–1952
Marriage: 12 January 1907
Mary Jane Hornung
1913–2000

Sources (17)

  • Katherine Horning, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Kathryn Mayhue, "Utah, County Marriages, 1871-1941"
  • Katherine Hall Hornung, "Find A Grave 194059371"

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World Events (8)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1884 · There is now a Capital Building

The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.

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.

Name Meaning

English, Scottish, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Danish: from Middle English hall (Old English heall), Middle High German halle, Old Norse hǫll all meaning ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), hence a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a hall or an occupational name for a servant employed at a hall. In some cases it may be a habitational name from any of the places called with this word, which in some parts of Germany and Austria in the Middle Ages also denoted a salt mine. Hall is one of the commonest and most widely distributed of English surnames, bearing witness to the importance of the hall as a feature of the medieval village. The English surname has been established in Ireland since the 14th century, and, according to MacLysaght, has become numerous in Ulster since the 17th century.

Swedish: ornamental or topographic name from hall ‘hall’ (a spacious residence), or a habitational name from a placename containing the element hall ‘rock’ (from Old Norse hallr).

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 何 and 賀, see He 1 and 2.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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