Brief Life History of Iva G.
When Iva G. Burr was born about 1878, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States, her father, Frederick Elbridge Burr, was 29 and her mother, Susan Melissa Wilcox, was 29. She married Grove Wetherell Wooding about 1899, in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. She lived in Bristol, Hartford, Connecticut, United States for about 10 years. She died before 1967.
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- Ina G Burr in household of Frederick E Burr, "United States Census, 1910"
- Iva Burr Wooding, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Iva Burr Wooding in entry for Marilyn Wooding Burger, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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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.
1900 · First U.S. Navy Submarine Constructed
The USS Holland was the first commissioned submarine. It was named after John Philip Holland. It had been laid down in November of 1896 and launched a year later. It was acquired and commissioned in 1900 and decommissioned five years later. The submarine was finally sold in 1913 and put on display until it was scrapped in 1932.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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