Brief Life History of Frances A
When Frances A Baber was born on 20 May 1897, in York, Clark, Illinois, United States, her father, James Winfield Scott Baber, was 29 and her mother, Lena Etna Switzer, was 22. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with Hobert Paul Jackson. She lived in Shawnee Township, Fountain, Indiana, United States in 1930 and York Township, Clark, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died in May 1963, in York, Clark, Illinois, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in York, Clark, Illinois, United States.
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- Frances Jackson, "United States Census, 1940"
- Frances Jackson, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Frances A. Baber Jackson, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucester, Somerset, and Wiltshire): from a Middle English borrowed form of an Anglo-Norman agent noun baubeour ‘stammerer’, from baubeier ‘to stammer’, applied as a nickname to someone with a stammer.
German: habitational name for someone from either of two places called Baben, in Silesia and Brandenburg.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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