Madeline Blair

Female27 October 1899–8 April 1900

Brief Life History of Madeline

When Madeline Blair was born on 27 October 1899, in Norwich, New London, Connecticut, United States, her father, Francis Blair, was 27 and her mother, Catherine Coleman, was 28. She died on 8 April 1900, in her hometown, at the age of 0.

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Family Time Line

Francis Blair
1872–
Catherine Coleman
1872–
Mary Blair
1893–
Francis Blair
1908–1908
Ann Blair
1895–
Madeline Blair
1899–1900
Catherine Blair
1900–
Rosalie Blair
1904–1905
Isabelle Charlotte Blair
1906–

Sources (2)

  • Madaline Blair, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
  • Madeline Blair, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (7)

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World Events (3)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

Age 1

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

Age 1

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1900 · First U.S.  Navy Submarine Constructed

Age 1

The USS Holland was the first commissioned submarine. It was named after John Philip Holland. It had been laid down in November of 1896 and launched a year later. It was acquired and commissioned in 1900 and decommissioned five years later. The submarine was finally sold in 1913 and put on display until it was scrapped in 1932.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.

Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .

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

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