Brief Life History of Dorothy Violet
When Dorothy Violet Stocker was born on 22 April 1894, in Danville, Caledonia, Vermont, United States, her father, George Nathaniel Stocker, was 48 and her mother, Mary Jeannette Kittredge, was 37. She married Archie Edwin Ainsworth on 1 June 1912, in Danville, Caledonia, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Manchester, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States in 1920 and Bartlett, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States for about 20 years. She died on 12 May 1971, in North Conway, Conway, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 77.
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- Dorothy D. Ainsworth, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dorothy V Stocker, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
- Dorathy Stocker in household of Stocker, "United States Census, 1900"
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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.
1905 · Treaty of Portsmouth Signed
The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905 and officially brought a conclusion to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker): topographic name for someone living by a tree stump (see Stock 3) or an occupational name for a tree cutter, from Middle High German stocken ‘to clear land’.
German and Swiss German (also Stöcker); Dutch: occupational name from Middle High German, Middle Dutch stocker ‘jailer’.
English: occupational name from Middle English stokker ‘one who sells stockfish’ (fish dried in the air without salt). This was the usual source of the name in medieval London, where a bylaw of 1419 stated that no stokker should board a ship to buy fish (presumably in order to forestall the market).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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