Francis Jeremiah Cooney

Brief Life History of Francis Jeremiah

When Francis Jeremiah Cooney was born on 21 May 1898, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, his father, John J Cooney, was 21 and his mother, Winifred Durack, was 28. He died on 2 May 1962, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 63.

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Family Time Line

John J Cooney
1876–1910
Winifred Durack
1870–
John P. Cooney
1897–1973
Francis Jeremiah Cooney
1898–1962
James Cooney
1900–1904
Edward James Cooney
1901–1976
Thomas Emmet Cooney
1901–
Anne Marie Cooney
1903–1977
Winifred Agnes Cooney
1908–1978

Sources (5)

  • Francis Cooney, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Francis Jeremiah Cooney, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994"
  • Francis Cooney in household of Winifred Cooney, "United States Census, 1920"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1900 · The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

Historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River. It reverses the direction of the Chicago River, which now flows out of Lake Michigan rather than into it. It is one of two canals that helps navigation to ships traveling between the Great Lakes Waterway and the Mississippi River system.

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

Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Bridie, Brigid, Caitlin, Dermot, Eamonn, Seamus, Siobhan.

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cuana ‘descendant of Cuana’, a personal name either based on ‘hound’ or derived from cuanna ‘elegant, comely’. This name is particularly common in Cavan.

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

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