Brief Life History of Anna Howard
When Anna Howard Shaw was born on 14 February 1847, in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, her father, Thomas Shaw, was 34 and her mother, Nicolas Stott, was 37. She lived in Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Illinois, United States in 1919. She died on 2 July 1919, in Moylan, Upper Providence Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 72.
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- Anna H Shaw, "United States Census, 1910"
- Anna Howard Shaw, "Find A Grave Index"
- Dr Anna Howard Shaw, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1848 · Chicago Board of Trade is organized
Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first ordained female Methodist minister …
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