Brief Life History of Leonard Goodridge
When Leonard Goodridge Hardy was born on 25 February 1886, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Leonard Goodridge Hardy, was 33 and his mother, Miriam Young, was 28. He married Lucetta Morton Bromley on 7 June 1914, in San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in San Mateo, California, United States in 1935 and Judicial Township 1, San Mateo, California, United States in 1940. He died on 27 February 1945, in San Mateo, San Mateo, California, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Colma, San Mateo, California, United States.
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- Leonard Hardy, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Leonard Goodridge Hardy - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Leonard Goodridge Hardy, Jr
- Leonard Goodridge Hardy, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1890
Death by suicide of van Gogh.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.
Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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