Brief Life History of Donald Wessley
When Donald Wessley Payne was born on 10 February 1907, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Frank Laverne Payne, was 22 and his mother, Maude Ann Spires, was 21. He married Marguerite Agnes Jaek in 1937, in Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. He lived in Cranesville, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920 and Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States for about 15 years. He died on 27 April 1995, in Painesville, Lake, Ohio, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Whitehaven Memorial Park, Mayfield Village, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.
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- Donald W Payne, "United States Census, 1950"
- Donald Wessley Payne, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Donald Wesley Payne, "Find A Grave Index"
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1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
1913 · Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded as a trust from Hinman Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley. It is to be known as the fourth-wealthiest art museum in the United States. The museum opened its doors to the public on June 6, 1916, and is free to the public to come and enjoy the diverse collections inside. Today the museum can be found as the center piece of Wade Park and both are on the National Register of Historic Places.
1930 · The Tower City Center
Originally known as the Cleveland Union Terminal, the Tower City Center was originally commissioned by the Van Sweringen brothers. At the time, it was the second-largest excavation project in the world after the Panama Canal. From 1930 until 1964, the 52-story Terminal Tower was the tallest building in North America outside of New York City.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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