Dora B Crowell

Brief Life History of Dora B

When Dora B Crowell was born on 8 February 1883, in Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, William Kenney Crowell, was 45 and her mother, Julia Ann Allen, was 40. She married Frank Harry Philbrook on 12 December 1900, in North Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. She lived in North Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States in 1900 and Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States in 1910. Her occupation is listed as housewife in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States. She died on 1 March 1935, in Exeter Hospital, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States.

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Frank Harry Philbrook
1876–1956
Dora B Crowell
1883–1935
Marriage: 12 December 1900

Sources (6)

  • Dora B Crowell in household of George Bachelder, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Dora B. Crowell, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • Dora C. Philbrick, "New Hampshire Death Records, 1654-1947"

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World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1886 · Giving Working Men a Union

The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from a lost place called Crowell in Spofforth (Yorkshire), or from a place in Oxfordshire named Crowell, from Old English crāwe ‘crow’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’.

Americanized form of German Grauel .

Americanized form of Dutch Krouwel or Crouwel: from Middle Dutch crauwel ‘trident hook, claw’, a metonymic occupational name for someone using this kind of tool, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house or inn named In de Crouwel (‘In the Trident Hook’), with such a device depicted on the signboard.

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

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