Michael Frances Gorman

Brief Life History of Michael Frances

When Michael Frances Gorman was born on 29 September 1869, in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland, his father, Thomas Gorman, was 19 and his mother, Mary Jane O'Donnell, was 25. He married Mary Agnes Wilden on 26 December 1893, in Coshocton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Tuscarawas Township, Coshocton, Ohio, United States in 1880 and Coshocton, Coshocton, Coshocton, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 1 August 1937, in Coshocton, Coshocton, Ohio, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in South Lawn Cemetery, Coshocton, Coshocton, Ohio, United States.

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Family Time Line

Michael Frances Gorman
1869–1937
Mary Agnes Wilden
1874–1935
Marriage: 26 December 1893
Helen Cecilia Gorman
1894–1963
John Gorman
1896–1897
Mary Ann Gorman
1897–1981
Thomas William Gorman
1900–1966
James Joseph Groman
1902–1971
Susan Francis Gorman
1905–1971
Catherine Gorman
1908–

Sources (20)

  • Michael Gorman, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Michal Thomas, "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881"
  • Michael F Gorman, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"

World Events (8)

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

1870 · Giving all the right to vote

The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

Name Meaning

Irish (Munster): from Mac Gormáin and Ó Gormáin ‘son (or descendant) of Gormán’, a personal name from a diminutive of gorm ‘dark blue, noble’.

Americanized form of German Görmann: variant of Germann .

Americanized form of German Görmann: of Slavic origin, an occupational name for a miner, from Slavic gora ‘mountain’ + Middle High German man ‘man’.

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

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