Edward Bartlett Riley

Brief Life History of Edward Bartlett

When Edward Bartlett Riley was born on 4 February 1902, in Melrose, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Edward Berg Riley, was 24 and his mother, Grace Bowker Nottage, was 28. He lived in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1910. He died on 27 April 1988, in Culpeper, Virginia, United States, at the age of 86.

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Edward Bartlett Riley
1902–1988
Esther
1906–

Sources (2)

  • Edward B Riley in household of Edward B Riley, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Edward Bartlett Riley, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"

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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.

1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility

Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War  the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name chiefly from High Ryley in Accrington (Lancashire) and Riley in Kirkburton, which was in the manor of Wakefield (Yorkshire). In some cases the name may derive from Riley Farm in Eyam (Derbyshire), Royley in Royton (Lancashire), or Rylah in Scarcliffe (Derbyshire). The placenames all come from Old English rȳge ‘rye’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.

Irish: from Ó Raghailligh ‘descendant of Raghailleach’, Old Irish Roghallach. This is the name of a chieftain family in Cavan, related to the O'Rourkes. In Anglicized form it has also been confused with Ó Raithile found in Munster, usually Anglicized as O'Rahilly or Rahilly . See O'Reilly .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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