When Allen Welsh Dulles was born on 7 April 1893, in Watertown, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Allen Macy Dulles, was 38 and his mother, Edith Foster, was 29. He married Martha Clover Todd on 16 October 1920, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1955 and lived in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States for about 10 years and United States in 1969. In 1953, his occupation is listed as central intelligence agency - director. He died on 29 January 1969, in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
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Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
The Klondike gold rush started in 1896 in Canada, but by 1897 as miners started moving and following the gold it caused for Seattle to rapidly grow as more miners joined the search for gold.
A strike led by silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey. The primary demands of the strike were focused on improved quality of working conditions and establishing an eight-hour workday limit. Two protestors were killed during the strike, and over 1,850 workers were arrested. The strike ultimately ended in failure, due to the manufacturers' inability to accept the demands of the strikes.
South German (mainly Austria): nickname for someone who was patient, from an agent derivative of Middle High German dult ‘patience’. Compare Tuller 2.
German: habitational name for someone from Dullen in Württemberg.
Germanized or Americanized form of Slovenian Dular: topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, derived from a dialect variant of dol ‘valley’, or a habitational name for someone from the village of Dule, named with the same word.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesUS Diplomat, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director. He was the first civilian Director of the CIA and served in that position from February 1953 until November 1961, its longest-serving director …
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