Brief Life History of Ellen Teresa
When Ellen Teresa Whitney was born on 10 March 1891, in Ballinamuck, County Longford, Ireland, her father, Thomas Whitney, was 47 and her mother, Bridget Prunty, was 46. She had at least 6 sons and 2 daughters with John Joseph O'Halloran. She lived in Election Precinct 5, Washington, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Washington, Oregon, United States in 1950. She died on 20 May 1978, in Tigard, Washington, Oregon, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Tigard, Washington, Oregon, United States.
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- Nellie Whitney, "United States Census, 1920"
- Ellen Teresa O'Halloran, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mrs Nellie O'Halloran in entry for Jerrold R Warner, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1913 · The Woolworth Building Opens as the Tallest Building in the World
At 792 feet above Broadway, the Woolworth Building became the tallest building in the world and held the record for 17 years. The Woolworth Building was overshadowed by the Chrysler Building at 1,046 feet in 1930 and the Empire State Building at 1,454 feet in 1931. Retailer and mogul Frank W. Woolworth commissioned the Woolworth Building in 1910 with the intent of his namesake building to be the tallest in the world. The 13 million dollar project was financed in cash by Woolworth which allowed him freedoms in the design and construction of the ornate, gothic building. An opening ceremony was held on April 24, 1913 at which President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button from the White House and lit the historic building in New York City.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Whitney in Herefordshire, the etymology of which is uncertain. The second element is Old English ēg ‘island, piece of higher ground in a low-lying area’; the first appears to be hwītan, which is either the genitive singular of an Old English byname Hwīta (meaning ‘white’), or the weak dative case (originally used after a preposition and article) of the adjective hwīt ‘white’. The name may also derive from Whitney (now Whitney Wood) in Stevenage (Hertfordshire), probably named from Old English hwītan ‘white’ + (ge)hæge ‘enclosure’.
History: John Whitney came from London, England, to Watertown, MA, in 1635, and had numerous prominent descendents.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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