Brief Life History of Dorothy
When Dorothy Cleveland was born in 1903, in New Jersey, United States, her father, Harold Cleveland, was 34 and her mother, Jeannett E Ettinger, was 28.
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Family Time Line
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- Dorothy Cleveland in household of Harold Cleveland, "United States Census, 1920"
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1903
The Public Service Corporation (PSC) was formed on May 6, 1903. The company began as a merger of a power company with four different trolley companies. PSC would ultimately combine with over 400 other companies.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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