When Florence Mary Donahue was born on 17 September 1905, her father, William F. Donahue, was 33 and her mother, Agnes T. Geiser, was 28. She lived in Plymouth, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1910 and Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States for about 20 years. She died in November 1988, at the age of 83, and was buried in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aidan, Siobhan, Aileen, Conan, Fidelma, John Patrick, Kieran, Parnell.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Donnchadha ‘descendant of Donnchadh’, a personal name (sometimes Anglicized as Duncan in Scotland), composed of the elements donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’ + cath ‘battle’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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