Brief Life History of Dorothy Catherine
When Dorothy Catherine Cornell was born on 25 August 1902, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, her father, Ernest C. Cornell, was 37 and her mother, Inez Bradshaw, was 29. She married Thomas Hamilton Olin on 1 September 1923, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Seattle, King, Washington, United States for about 1 years and Palm Springs, Riverside, California, United States in 1981. She died on 21 February 1988, in California, United States, at the age of 85.
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- Dorothy Olin, "United States 1950 Census"
- Cornell, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Dorothy Cornell, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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World Events (8)
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: shortened form of Cornwell , Cornwall , or of Cornhill, a habitational name from a place in Northumberland named Cornhill, from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cron, cran ‘crane’ + halh ‘nook, recess’; or from Cornhill in London, a medieval grain exchange, named with Old English corn ‘corn, grain’ + hyll ‘hill’, or from some other place elsewhere similarly named.
English: variant of Corney .
English: possibly also a nickname from French corneille ‘rook, crow’, probably denoting a chatterer or someone with dark hair or a dark complexion.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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