When Hattie Rae Webb was born on 26 January 1885, in Michigan, United States, her father, Samuel Webb, was 25 and her mother, Agnes Melvina Barnes, was 23. She married John Howard King on 29 September 1909, in Goodells, St. Clair, Michigan, United States. She lived in Wales Center, Wales Township, St. Clair, Michigan, United States in 1950 and Wales Township, St. Clair, Michigan, United States in 1973. She died on 2 March 1973, in Port Huron, St. Clair, Michigan, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Wales Township, St. Clair, Michigan, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The Bagley Memorial Fountain was erected in 1887 with funds from the estate of John Judson Bagley. Bagley's will ordered the construction of the drinking fountain which would provide the people of Detroit "water cold and pure as the coldest mountain stream." H.H. Richards was the architect for the Romanesque-style, pink granite, lionhead fountain. It is engraved with the words, "TESTAMENTARY GIFT FOR THE PEOPLE FROM JOHN JUDSON BAGLEY A.D. MDCCCLXXXVII".
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
English: occupational name for a weaver, from early Middle English webbe (Old English webba (masculine) or webbe (feminine), probably used of both male and female weavers). This word survived into Middle English long enough to give rise to the surname, but was already obsolescent as an agent noun; hence the secondary forms with the agent suffixes -er and -ster (see Webster , Webber and compare Weaver ).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, cognates of 1, including Weber and Weberman.
History: Richard Webb, a Lowland Scot, was an admitted freeman of Boston in 1632, and in 1635 was one of the first settlers of Hartford, CT.
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