Brief Life History of Edward R
When Edward R Balderston was born on 27 February 1897, his father, Thomas Miffin Balderston, was 18 and his mother, Kathryn Veronica Purcell, was 22. He married Mrs Catherine Balderston about 1916. He lived in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey, United States in 1915. He died in November 1963, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 66.
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- Edward R Balderston in household of Thomas M Balderston, "New Jersey State Census, 1915"
- Edward Balderston, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edward Balderston -
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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.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
1916
"During a deadly heat wave, thousands of residents were at the seaside resorts of Jersey Shore. Between July 1 and July 2 of 1916, five different people were attacked by sharks, and four of them ultimately died. Scientific knowledge about sharks was limited at this time, so these tragic incidents started a wave of ""shark panic"" that was spread by telephone calls, letters, newspapers, and other media."
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from either of two places in Lancashire called Balderston(e), deriving their names from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Baldhere (composed of the elements bald ‘bold, brave’ + here ‘army’) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Scottish: habitational name from Balderston in West Lothian, which has the same etymology as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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