Brief Life History of Mildred Eva
When Mildred Eva Hills was born on 26 August 1902, in Ligonier, Perry Township, Noble, Indiana, United States, her father, Wilbur Sherman Hills, was 40 and her mother, Lillie May Shockey, was 33. She married Joseph Francis McCarthy on 6 December 1922, in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Goshen, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1920. She died on 26 May 1979, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in East Lawn Cemetery, Quincy Junction, Plumas, California, United States.
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- Mildred E Taylor, "United States Census, 1950"
- Mildred McCarthy, "Illinois, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
- Mildred Eva Taylor, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Hill with genitival -s if a relationship name, attested in Matilda Hilles, 1327 (Somerset), where the genitival form may signify widowhood; or with plural -s if habitational, attested in Johanne de Hyles, 1379 (Bickerstaffe, Lancashire), and Ricardo del Hyles, 1379 (Great Eccleston, Lancashire); or, with post-medieval excrescent -s, probably the most common form.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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