When Irene M. Cote was born about 1900, in Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States, her father, Amede Louis Cole, was 37 and her mother, Susan Ermina Fisk, was 22. She married George Howard Smith on 11 December 1920, in Honor, Homestead Township, Benzie, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Saranac, Boston Township, Ionia, Michigan, United States in 1950. She died on 13 September 2002, in Michigan, United States, at the age of 103.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
"Henry Ford built his first gasoline-powered vehicle, named the Quadricycle, in 1896, at his home in Detroit. Ford sold the Quadricycle for $200 and used the money to build a second car. In 1901, Ford raced his car ""Sweepstakes"" against Alexander Winton and won. The victory resulted in publicity for Ford which allowed him to gain investors for his new company, Ford Motor Company. The first Model A was sold on July 23, 1903, and the company was incorporated on November 13, 1903."
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Some characteristic forenames: French Armand, Marcel, Normand, Andre, Emile, Laurent, Michel, Pierre, Jacques, Lucien, Fernand, Monique.
French (Côte, Côté, Coté): topographic name for someone who lived on a slope or riverbank, less often on the coast, from Old French coste (from Latin costa ‘rib, side, flank’, also used in a transferred topographic sense). There are several places in France, named with this word, and the surname may also be a habitational name from any of these. Compare Ducote .
French (Côté): variant of Costé, itself a variant of Coste and a cognate of 1 above, as a habitational name perhaps from Le Costil, the name of several places in Normandy. Compare Cody 3, Cota 5, Cotey , and Coty 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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