Brief Life History of Catherine
When Catherine Heatley was born on 27 January 1879, in Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William Heatley Jr, was 25 and her mother, Mary Muirhead, was 26. She married George Frenke on 2 October 1899, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She immigrated to United States in 1882. She died on 25 January 1933, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Elmhurst, DuPage, Illinois, United States.
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- Catherine Bartz in household of Arthur E Bartz, "United States Census, 1920"
- Katherine Bartz, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Katherine Bartz, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1878-1994"
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World Events (8)
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Heatley in Lymm (Cheshire), Heatley in Broomhall (Cheshire), or Heatley near Abbots Bromley (Staffordshire). The placenames derive from Old English hǣth ‘heath, heather’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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