Brief Life History of Doris Ethel
When Doris Ethel Bruce was born on 2 September 1915, in Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Fred Ernest Bruce, was 36 and her mother, Clara Ethel Downes, was 31. She had at least 1 son and 2 daughters with James Martin Geoghegan. She lived in United States in 1949 and Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. She died on 21 May 2010, at the age of 94, and was buried in Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Doris Geoghan, "United States Census, 1940"
- Doris Ethel Bruce, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Doris E. Bruce Geoghegan, "Find A Grave Index"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
Scottish (of Norman origin): habitational name from a place in Normandy, probably from Brix (La Manche).
Altered form of French Brousse .
History: The son of the Domesday baron, a friend of David I of Scotland, was granted by him the Lordship of Annandale in 1124, and his second son Robert became the founder of the Scottish house of Bruce. — This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with its original form Brousse in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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