When Mabel Stratton was born on 23 March 1901, in Dell Rapids, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, her father, Sheldon Elbanan Stratton I, was 32 and her mother, Lydia Estella Beebe, was 23. She married Frank Guenther Jr on 27 March 1922, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Home Township, Turner, South Dakota, United States in 1940 and Marion, Turner, South Dakota, United States in 1950. She died on 19 December 1985, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 84.
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A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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English and Scottish: habitational name from any of several places called Stratton or Stretton, almost all named with Old English strǣt ‘paved road, Roman road’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Stratton in Cornwall, which may also be a partial source of the surname, probably has as its first element Cornish stras ‘valley’.
English: variant of Sturton, a habitational name from Sturton le Steeple (Nottinghamshire), Great Sturton (Lincolnshire), Sturton by Stow (Lincolnshire), or possibly Sturton (Northumberland), all of which placenames share the same etymology and early spellings as 1 above.
Scottish: habitational name from Straiton (Ayrshire), Straiton in Liberton (Midlothian), or South Straiton in Logie (Fife), all named with Old English strǣt ‘street, Roman road’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesWhen Mabel Hanna Stratton was born on March 24, 1901, in Minnehaha County, South Dakota, her father, Sheldon, was 32 and her mother, Lydia, was 23. She married Frank Guenther on March 27, 1922, in Min …
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