Brief Life History of Eileen Inez
When Eileen Inez Norton was born on 24 March 1917, in Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States, her father, Joseph Sylvester Norton, was 32 and her mother, Theresa Degnan, was 28. She died on 18 March 1999, in Spring Lake Borough, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Holy Name Cemetery, Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Eileen I Norton, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Eileen Norton in entry for Dorothy Margaret Norton, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Eileen I Norton, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
1920
New Jersey was the first state to ratify Prohibition, the short-lived constitutional ban on alcoholic beverages.
1940
New Jersey contributed extensively to help the United States during World War II. Over 9% of all allied war-based construction contracts were handled in New Jersey, including aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, and other naval ships. In addition, almost 500,000 New Jersey residents enlisted in the war (roughly 10% of the state's population).
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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