Brief Life History of Florence Gladys
When Florence Gladys Parker was born on 7 October 1879, in Scots Bay, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, James Burton Parker, was 25 and her mother, Harriet Amelia Rogers, was 25. She married Louis Boyd Richardson on 27 June 1903, in Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She lived in South Attleboro, Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States in 1940 and Attleboro, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States in 1947. She died on 27 November 1947, in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Millis, Millis, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Florence G. Parker in household of James B. Parker, "Canada Census, 1881"
- Legacy NFS Source: Florence Gladys Parker - Government record: Marriage record or certificate: birth-name: Florence Gladys Parker
- Florence Gladys Parker, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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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.
1895 · College Hall Catches on Fire
On January 27, 1895, College Hall catches on fire and is fully consumed within one hour. During the fire, many students and faculty work together to save many of the items in the building. Some of these are library books. They save the books by piling them onto the rugs and dragging them out of the burning building. College Hall is then later rebuilt and renamed Davis Hall after Governor John W. Davis.
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: occupational name from Middle English parker ‘park-keeper’ (Old French parquier, parchier), an officer employed to look after deer and other game in a hunting park (see Park 1). This surname is also very common among African Americans. It has also been recorded since medieval times in Ireland.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish names.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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