Brief Life History of Mabel Florence
When Mabel Florence Holbrook was born on 25 December 1884, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, Frank H Holbrook, was 33 and her mother, Catherine A Synder, was 31. She married Frederick Marvin Turney on 29 January 1913, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Detroit Ward 1, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Highland Park, Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 14 January 1944, in Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Beverly Hills, Southfield Township, Oakland, Michigan, United States.
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- Mabel F Holbrook in household of Frank H Holbrook, "United States Census, 1910"
- Mable Holbrook, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902"
- Mable F. Halbrook, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889 · The first Skyscraper in Detroit
The Hammond Building was a high-rise building completed in 1889 and was 151 feet tall. It's considered the first skyscraper in the city and was the tallest in Michigan after it was built. The Hammond Building was demolished in 1956 to make way for the National Bank of Detroit Building.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English hol ‘hole, hollow’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’, such as Holbrook (Derbyshire, Dorset, Suffolk) and Howbrook in Wortley (Yorkshire).
Americanized form of North German Halbrock (or some like-sounding surname), a cognate of 1 above.
History: This name was first taken to America by the brothers Thomas and John Holbrook, who emigrated to MA in the 17th century; their line can be traced back to Dundry, Somerset, England, in the first half of the 16th century. Other English bearers who started early lines of descent in the New World are Joseph Ho(u)lbrook of Warrington, Lancashire, who emigrated to MD as an indentured servant in the later 17th century; Randolph Holbrook, who was in VA in the 1720s but later returned to Nantwich, Cheshire; and Rev. John Holbrook, who emigrated from Handbury, Staffordshire, to NJ c. 1723.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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