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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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"
Parents and Siblings
1832–1887 Male
1837– Female
Siblings (1)
1858–1926 Male
World Events (8)
1863
Age 5
1865 · Assassination Plot
Age 7
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
Age 18
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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