Brief Life History of Florence Camille
When Florence Camille Burr was born on 2 July 1905, in Red Lodge, Carbon, Montana, United States, her father, Roger Sherman Burr, was 28 and her mother, Florence Bridget Hewitt, was 22. She married William Henry Polkinghorn on 26 October 1930, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 28 November 1961, in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States, at the age of 56.
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- Florence C Polkinghorn, "United States 1950 Census"
- Camille F Polkinghorn, "Montana, County Births and Deaths, 1840-2004"
- Florence Camille Burr, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
1910 · Glacier National Park Established
Congress established Glacier National Park on May 11, 1910. The park is located in the northern part of Montana on the Canada- US border. It covers 1 million acres, has over a hundred lakes, over a thousand different plant species, and over a hundred animal species. Previously the area had been occupied by the Blackfoot and Flathead people.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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