Letitia Emma Bradin

Brief Life History of Letitia Emma

When Letitia Emma Bradin was born on 8 June 1896, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, James Alexander Bradin, was 49 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Dunn, was 44. She married Harry Baxter Nason on 25 June 1919, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Merion Station, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. She died on 16 March 1983, in Valley Forge, Schuylkill Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harry Baxter Nason
1895–1974
Letitia Emma Bradin
1896–1983
Marriage: 25 June 1919
Jane Baxter Nason
1925–2000
Harry Baxter Nason III
1928–2020

Sources (14)

  • Letitia E Moore, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Letitia E. Bradin, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia City Births, 1860-1906"
  • Letitia E Bradin, "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Marriage Indexes, 1885-1951"

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.

1905 · The Movie Theater

The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in. 

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Jewish Isadore. Russian Boris, Mikhail, Yevgeny.

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metronymic from the Yiddish female personal name Frade, a variant of Freyde, meaning ‘joy’. It is formed with the Slavic possessive suffix -in.

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

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