When Arthur Everett Hadley was born on 25 May 1868, in Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States, his father, Albert Hadley, was 25 and his mother, Mary Jane Brown, was 22. He died on 8 October 1871, in Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States, at the age of 3, and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lawrence, Douglas, Kansas, United States.
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from either of three places called Hadley, in Worcestershire and Shropshire, or from either of two places called Hadleigh, in Essex and Suffolk, or Monken Hadley in Middlesex. The first is named from the Old English personal name Hadda + lēah ‘wood, (woodland) clearing’; the others are from Old English hǣth ‘heathland, heather’ + lēah.
In some cases also Native American (Navajo): variant of Hatathlie ‘singer (i.e. medicine man)’. Compare Singer 5.
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