Brief Life History of Lena Ethel
When Lena Ethel Norton was born on 16 November 1895, in Lee, Iowa, United States, her father, Benjamin Franklin Norton, was 28 and her mother, Emma P. Storms, was 21. She married Roland L. Reed Sr. on 27 June 1912. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Duncan Township, Mercer, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Eliza Township, Mercer, Illinois, United States in 1940. She died after 1940, and was buried in Keithsburg Cemetery, Keithsburg Township, Mercer, Illinois, United States.
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- Allena E Norton in household of Benjamin F Norton, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Lena Norton Reed in entry for Madeline R Miller, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
- Lena Norton in household of Frank Norton, "United States Census, 1910"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the many places so called, from Old English north ‘north’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. In some cases it is a variant of Norrington .
Irish: altered form of Naughton , assimilated to the English name (see 1 above).
Jewish (American): adoption of the English surname (see 1 above) in place of some similar (like-sounding) original Ashkenazic surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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