Brief Life History of Annie Florence
When Annie Florence Ash was born on 17 May 1896, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, her father, Alma Ash, was 35 and her mother, Ellen Sanford, was 28. She married Peter William Madsen Jr on 4 July 1918, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Idaho Falls Election Precinct 5, Bonneville, Idaho, United States in 1940. She died on 16 June 1971, in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in City of Mesa Cemetery, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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- Annie Hunter in household of Archie A Hunter, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ash, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
- Annie F Ash, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1897 · The Utah State Historical Society
The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
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.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English asche ‘ash tree’ (Old English æsc), hence a topographic name for someone living by an ash tree or a habitational name from any of the many places in southern and central England named with this word (Derbyshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Herefordshire, Kent, Surrey, Shropshire, Somerset, and elsewhere).
Americanized form of German Asch and Esch , the latter ultimately also of Swiss German origin (see Oesch ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dufresne , with the same meaning as 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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