Brief Life History of Francis William
When Francis William Clough was born on 20 July 1900, in Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Henry Clough, was 34 and his mother, Harriet Louellen Newton, was 31. He married Elsie Birdie Russell on 29 July 1922, in Montpelier, Washington, Vermont, United States. He lived in Hudson Falls, Kingsbury, Washington, New York, United States in 1930 and Glens Falls, Warren, New York, United States in 1965. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 11 December 1967, in Fort Edward, Fort Edward, Washington, New York, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Union Cemetery, Fort Edward, Washington, New York, United States.
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- Francis Clough, "United States Census, 1940"
- Francis William Clough, “Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915”
- Francis William Clough in the Vermont, Marriage Records, 1909
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1901 · Theodore Roosevelt becomes the Twenty-sixth President of the United States
After the Assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the Twenty-sixth President of the United States. During his first term he didn't have a Vice President but for his second term Charles W. Fairbanks filled the position.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): topographic name for someone who lived near a precipitous slope, Middle English clo(u)gh, clou, clew (Old English clōh) ‘ravine, steep-sided valley’, or a habitational name from a place called with this word, for example in Lancashire, Cumbria, or Yorkshire.
English: in the East Midlands, East Anglia, and southeastern England, probably more often a variant of Clow .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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