Brief Life History of Arthur Pierce
When Arthur Pierce Marden was born on 4 September 1874, in Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Alvah Newel Marden, was 30 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Pierce, was 26. He married Mattie Leighton Gowen on 6 September 1899, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Spring Street Cemetery, Essex, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. He died on 22 September 1953, in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Arthur P Marden, "United States Census, 1950"
- Arthur Ruei Marden, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Arthur Pierce Marden, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places so called in Kent, Essex, Surrey, Hertfordshire, and Sussex, or from Meriden (Warwickshire) or Merriden Farm (Surrey). Marden (Kent) derives from Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary, border’ + denn ‘woodland pasture’. Marden Ash (Essex) and The Mardens in Caterham (Surrey) derive from Old English (ge)mǣre + Old English denu ‘valley’, denoting a valley that formed a border such as a parish boundary. Marden Hill in Tewin (Hertfordshire), Marden Park in Godstone (Surrey), Meriden (Warwickshire), and Merriden Farm in Dorking (Surrey) all denote ‘pleasant valley’, from Old English myrig + Old English denu. East Marden, North Marden, and Up Marden (Sussex) derive from Old English (ge)mǣre ‘boundary’ + dūn ‘hill’.
English: habitational name from Marden in Herefordshire. The place takes its name from the district name Maund (see Maund ) + Old English worthign ‘enclosure’.
English: perhaps occasionally a habitational name from Marden in Wiltshire. The placename probably means ‘fertile valley’, from Old English mearg ‘marrow, fat’ + denu ‘valley’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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