When Catherine Shanahan was born on 25 July 1873, in Jefferson, Marion, Texas, United States, her father, Thomas J Shanahan, was 31 and her mother, Catherine Lawler, was 29. She married James Bradford Zachry Sr on 23 April 1895, in Hunt, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Justice Precinct 3, Marion, Texas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 13 June 1945, in Jefferson, Marion, Texas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Marion, Texas, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
A new state constitution was passed in 1876, announcing the segregation of schools.
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Eamonn, Aidan, Donovan, Kieran, Liam, Marypat, Siobhan.
Irish (Tipperary and Limerick): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanacháin or Mac Seanacháin ‘descendant of Seanachán’, a diminutive of Seanach, a personal name from sean ‘ancient, old’.
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