Brief Life History of Margaret Theresa
When Margaret Theresa Murphy was born in 1870, in Shieldsville Township, Rice, Minnesota, United States, her father, Thomas Murphy, was 55 and her mother, Margaret Collins, was 40. She married James Patrick Mathews on 24 October 1899, in Shieldsville Township, Rice, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Shieldsville, Rice, Minnesota, United States in 1885. She died in 1963, at the age of 93, and was buried in Lafleche, Wood River No. 74, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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- Lisa Murphy, "Minnesota State Census, 1885"
- Thresa Murphy, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
- Teresa Murphy in entry for * Mathews, "South Dakota, Department of Health, Index to Births 1843-1914 and Marriages 1950-2016"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Liam, Aileen, Kieran, Brigid, Donal, Siobhan, Eamon, Aidan, Dermot, John Patrick, Declan.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murchadha ‘descendant of Murchadh’, a personal name composed of the elements muir ‘sea’ + cath ‘battle’, i.e. ‘sea warrior’. This was an important family in Tyrone. For the surname with mac, see also McMurrough (Leinster).
English: variant of Morphey (see Morphew ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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