When Mary Elizabeth Porritt was born on 19 July 1903, in Arco, Blaine, Idaho, United States, her father, Thomas Hampton Porritt, was 33 and her mother, Mary Janette Cherry, was 27. She had at least 2 sons and 3 daughters with Glen Walter Ahlstrom. She lived in Elsinore, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1930 and Elsinore Election Precinct, Sevier, Utah, United States in 1940. She died on 20 September 1979, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Washington Heights Memorial Park, South Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Known as the Orpheum Theatre, the Opera House was built in 1890 because there was no play house located in the City. People came from all around to see the shows. When the name was changed to the Orpheum, different shows came about to please the viewers tastes and ideas.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
English (northern; of Norman origin): habitational name from an unidentified place. Alternatively, possibly a nickname from Old French and Middle English poret, the common or garden leek, perhaps for a grower or seller of leeks. The word was also used in Old French to denote something of little value.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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