Brief Life History of Maud Bell
When Maud Bell was born on 24 June 1894, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, William Bellville, was 18 and her mother, Henrietta May Poupard, was 22. She married Arthur Mansfield on 7 August 1912, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Detroit Ward 14, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Detroit Ward 21, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920.
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- Maude Mansfield in household of Arthur Mansfield, "United States Census, 1930"
- Maud A Belleville, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Maud Belleville, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1897 · Beginnings of Kmart
Detroit was the home of the second dime and nickel stores that S. S. Kresge owned. After two years with John McCrory, his partner, he traded his share in the Memphis store, plus $3,000, for full ownership of the Detroit store and formed the Kresge & Wilson Company with his brother-in-law, Charles J. Wilson. In 1962, the S. S. Kresge Company would rebrand and change their name to Kmart.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
Medieval vernacular form of Matilda . This form was characteristically Low German (i.e. including medieval Dutch and Flemish). The wife of William the Conqueror , who bore this name, was the daughter of Baldwin , Count of Flanders. In Flemish and Dutch the letter -t- was generally lost when it occurred between vowels, giving forms such as Ma(h)auld. Maud or Matilda was also the name of the daughter ( 1102–67 ) of Henry I of England; she was married early in life to the Holy Roman Emperor Henry V , and later disputed the throne of England with her cousin Stephen . In 1128 she married Geoffrey , Count of Anjou. A medieval chronicler commented, ‘she was a good woman, but she had little bliss with him’. The name Maud became quite common in England in the 19th century, when its popularity was influenced in part by Tennyson's poem Maud, published in 1855 , but has not been much used since the early decades of the 20th century.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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