Brief Life History of Mary E.
When Mary E. Wolfe was born in May 1878, in McNairy, Tennessee, United States, her father, William Peter Wolfe, was 30 and her mother, Lucy Ellen Higgins, was 25. She lived in Civil District 4, Hardin, Tennessee, United States in 1900.
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- M E Wolf in household of W R Wolf, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary E. Wolf - Published information: birth: May 1878; McNairy, Tennessee, United States
- Mary E Wolf in household of W P Wolf, "United States Census, 1900"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Wolf and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this. This is also a common spelling in Ireland (see also Woulfe ), particularly in counties Cork and Limerick, while in Germany this surname is very rare.
Americanized form of various other surnames meaning ‘wolf’, e.g. Hungarian Farkas , Czech and Slovak Vlk , Slovenian and other Slavic Volk , Vovk , and Vuk (see Wolf ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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