Charles Sumner Hale

Male15 September 1858–15 September 1926

Brief Life History of Charles Sumner

When Charles Sumner Hale was born on 15 September 1858, in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Francis H. Hale, was 26 and his mother, Mary Ellen Bunker, was 22. He lived in Norway, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 September 1926, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Francis H. Hale
1832–1887
Mary Ellen Bunker
1837–
Charles Sumner Hale
1858–1926

Sources (5)

  • Charles S Hale in household of Sumner Hale, "United States Census, 1860"
  • Charles Sumner Hale, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
  • Charles S. Hale, "District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961"

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Siblings (1)

World Events (8)

1863

Age 5

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1865 · Assassination Plot

Age 7

On April 14,1865, an assassination plot takes place. The first shot is President Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth while at Ford's Theater. The second is the secretary of State William H. Seward who is stabbed multiple times. The final is suppose to be the vice president Andrew Johnson but the would be assassin got cold feet.

1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.

Age 18

The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.

Name Meaning

English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).

Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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