Brief Life History of Walter Norman
When Walter Norman Hadley was born on 1 November 1882, in Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Lucien Norman Hadley, was 37 and his mother, Jeanette Bourn, was 32. He married Anne Harris on 16 August 1921, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States in 1930 and Gardner, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States for about 21 years. He died on 9 July 1961, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, Templeton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Walter Hadley, "United States Census, 1940"
- Walter Norman Hadley, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Walter N Hadley, "District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English (mainly West Midlands): habitational name from either of three places called Hadley, in Worcestershire and Shropshire, or from either of two places called Hadleigh, in Essex and Suffolk, or Monken Hadley in Middlesex. The first is named from the Old English personal name Hadda + lēah ‘wood, (woodland) clearing’; the others are from Old English hǣth ‘heathland, heather’ + lēah.
In some cases also Native American (Navajo): variant of Hatathlie ‘singer (i.e. medicine man)’. Compare Singer 5.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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