Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth
When Sarah Elizabeth Howard was born on 30 March 1870, in Greene, Indiana, United States, her father, Christopher S. Howard, was 29 and her mother, Nancy Jane Smith, was 24. She married Charles E Arterburn on 3 May 1900, in Greene, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Jackson Township, Greene, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Bicknell, Vigo Township, Knox, Indiana, United States for about 20 years. She died on 29 June 1961, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Chapel Hill Gardens South, Oak Lawn, Cook, Illinois, United States.
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- Elizabeth Arterburn in household of Charles Arterburn, "United States Census, 1900"
- Elizabeth Arterburn, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994"
- Elizabeth Howard in entry for Charles Arterburn, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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World Events (8)
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
1872 · Montgomery Ward Inc.
Montgomery Ward was founded by Aaron Montgomery Ward after he observed that rural customers often wanted goods from the city but couldn’t get them because of distance and cost. Ward believed that he could cut costs and make a wide variety of goods available to rural customers. Ward and two partners used $1,600 to issue the first catalog in August 1872 and with its publication, rural retailers considered Ward a threat and publicly burned his catalog. Despite the opposition, however, the business grew at a fast pace over the next several decades and was almost as successful as Sears. In April 1944, U.S. Army troops seized the Chicago offices of Montgomery Ward & Company after President Roosevelt ordered it because of an unsettled strike request made by the workers. Eight months later, with Montgomery Ward continuing to refuse to recognize the unions, President Roosevelt issued an executive order seizing all of Montgomery Ward's property nationwide.
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
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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