Brief Life History of Mary Esther
When Mary Esther Manning was born on 14 October 1892, in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut, United States, her father, Alfred Nelson Manning, was 39 and her mother, Martha Emma Birchard, was 35. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Prescott Robinson Chamberlin. She lived in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States for about 10 years and Dublin, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States in 1920. She died on 7 October 1973, in Windham, Windham, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Mary Manning in household of Alfred N Manning, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary Esther Manning - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Mary Esther Manning
- Mary E. Manning in entry for Flora B. Chamberlain, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"
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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.
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.
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
Irish (Cork and Kerry): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Mainnín ‘descendant of Mainnín’, probably an assimilated form of Mainchín, a diminutive of manach ‘monk’. This is the name of a chieftain family in Connacht. It is sometimes pronounced Ó Maingín and Anglicized as Mangan .
English: from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Manning.
North German and Dutch: habitational name from a farm so named, once in possession of a certain Manno (see Mann 2) and his kin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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