Brief Life History of Anna Gertrude
When Anna Gertrude Horton was born in 1874, in Dutchess, New York, United States, her father, Edward Horton, was 44 and her mother, Cornelia A Robinson, was 36. She married Charles Austin Cady on 29 April 1894, in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Clinton, Dutchess, New York, United States in 1880 and Pleasant Valley, Dutchess, New York, United States in 1900. She died on 28 March 1928, in Town of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Pleasant Valley, Dutchess, New York, United States.
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- Anna Cady in household of Charles Cady, "United States Census, 1920"
- Annie, "Find A Grave Index"
- Ana Horton in entry for Chester Henry Cady and Alice Gray Maclo, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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
English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from one or other of the many places so called, such as those in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Wiltshire, and Yorkshire. Most of the placenames derive from Old English horh or horu ‘dirt, filth’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though some may have different origins, including Horton in Gloucestershire, which may derive from Old English heorot ‘hart, stag’ + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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