Mary Fredonia Harlan

Brief Life History of Mary Fredonia

When Mary Fredonia Harlan was born on 9 August 1892, in Williamsburg, Franklin, Kansas, United States, her father, Lemuel Harlan, was 40 and her mother, Jeanette Johnson, was 27. She married Fred Earl Young on 23 December 1914, in Anderson, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Williamsburg Township, Franklin, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Reeder Township, Anderson, Kansas, United States in 1920. She died in June 1982, in Williamsburg, Franklin, Kansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Williamsburg, Franklin, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Fred Earl Young
1886–1986
Mary Fredonia Harlan
1892–1982
Marriage: 23 December 1914
Maxine Florine Young
1916–1987

Sources (8)

  • Fredonia Young in household of Fred E Young, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Mary Freda Young, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Mary F. Harlan in entry for Fred Earl Young, "Kansas Marriages, 1840-1935"

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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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

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

English: habitational name from any of several minor places called in Old English with hār ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock, tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land, estate, cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside (North Yorkshire). This surname has also been present in northern Ireland (Armagh and Antrim) since the 17th century, but is now rare in Britain.

History: Harlan County, KY was named for Major Silas Harlan (died 1782). John Marshall Harlan, born in KY in 1833, became a US Supreme Court justice.

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

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