Brief Life History of Mary Angela
When Mary Angela Sawyer was born on 26 January 1878, in Plymouth, Windsor, Vermont, United States, her father, Merritt Angelo Sawyer, was 25 and her mother, Jennie Rose McWain, was 25. She married Fred Anderson Brown Handy on 18 July 1899, in Woodstock, Windsor, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1920 and Orangetown, Rockland, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 28 June 1958, in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Mary S Handy, "United States Census, 1930"
- Amelia Sawyer, "Vermont, Births and Christenings, 1765-1908"
- Mary Angena Handy, "New Hampshire Death Certificates, 1938-1959"
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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.
1881 · North Street Fire Station Built
Built in 1881, the North Street Fire Station is the oldest fire station in Salem, Massachusetts.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for someone who earned his living by sawing wood, from Middle English sauer(e), sauw(i)er, also sagh(i)er, sag(i)er ‘sawyer’, a derivative of Old English sagu ‘saw’.
Americanized form of some similar (like-sounding) Jewish surname, or translation into English of Jewish Seger or some other surname meaning ‘sawyer’, e.g. German Sager and Slovenian Žagar (see Zagar ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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