Brief Life History of Olive Alberta
When Olive Alberta Perry was born in August 1890, in Brown, Illinois, United States, her father, Asa Blanchard Perry, was 25 and her mother, Emma Alberta Wyatt, was 22. She married Fredrick Oliver Knowles on 20 March 1907, in Morgan, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Mount Sterling Township, Brown, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Mount Sterling, Brown, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. She died in May 1980, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 89.
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- Olive A Howler in household of Fred O Hoowler, "United States Census, 1920"
- Olive Perry, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Olive Perry in entry for Mack Knowles and Alice Buskirk, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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World Events (8)
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.
1913 · Women's Suffrage Demonstration
A demonstration for women's suffrage takes place on March 3, 1913. This is the first suffrage parade in Washington D.C. One of the notable women in attendance is Ida B. Wells.
1915 · Homemade Bomb Explosion
On July 2, 1915 an angry, former Harvard professor, Erich Muenter, places a homemade bomb in the Senate Reception Room. He was upset about the private sales of US munitions to the allies during the war.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of the personal name Harry (see Harris ).
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a pear tree (Middle English piri(e), peri(e), puri(e), Old English pirige, pyrige), or a habitational name for someone who owned or came from a place so named. This surname and a number of variants have been established in Ireland since the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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