Brief Life History of Maxine E
When Maxine E Copp was born on 23 March 1917, in North Anson, Anson, Somerset, Maine, United States, her father, George W. Copp Jr., was 50 and her mother, Marion Ella Waugh, was 29. She married James Edward Harney Sr. on 6 July 1935, in Gray, Cumberland, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States in 1940 and Oxford, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1950. She died on 28 December 1983, in Norway, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Gracelawn Memorial Park, Auburn, Androscoggin, Maine, United States.
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- Maxine E Hurney, "United States 1950 Census"
- Maxine E Copp, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
- Maxine E Copp Harney, "Find A Grave Index"
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1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1935 · The FBI is Established
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): topographic name for someone who lived on the top of a hill, from Middle English coppe, Old English copp ‘summit’ (a transferred sense of copp ‘head, bowl’, cognate with modern English cup). Alternatively, a nickname for someone with a peculiarity of the head.
German: variant of Kopp and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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