Brief Life History of Ada Eleanor
When Ada Eleanor Sprague was born on 5 November 1907, in Spalding, Greeley, Nebraska, United States, her father, Charles William Sprague, was 47 and her mother, Nettie Robertson, was 31. She had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Donald Hager. She lived in United States in 1949 and San Diego, San Diego, California, United States in 1950. She died on 24 October 2003, in California, United States, at the age of 95, and was buried in National City, San Diego, California, United States.
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- Ada E Hager, "United States 1950 Census"
- Ada E Hager, "United States Social Security Death Index"
- Ada Eleanor Sprague in entry for Dorella May Hager, "Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002"
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1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): nickname from Middle English sprag ‘brisk, energetic’, a variant of Sprake with voicing of the -k-, which survives in the 19th-century dialect word spragg ‘lively, ingenious’. It was occasionally used in the 12th century as personal name, recorded as Spreg'c. 1177–86.
History: William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale's Sprague concert hall.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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