Brief Life History of Ada Phala
When Ada Phala Mann was born on 16 May 1897, in Surry, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Nathaniel H. Mann, was 43 and her mother, Phala Ann Goodell, was 31. She married Robert Gaylord Prentiss on 7 August 1919, in Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Dummerston, Windham, Vermont, United States in 1910 and Putney, Windham, Vermont, United States for about 10 years. She died on 21 April 1979, in Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Ada M Prentis in household of Robert G Prentis, "United States Census, 1920"
- Ada Phala Mann, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Ada Plata Mann in entry for Marguerette Ruth Prentise, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1905 · Treaty of Portsmouth Signed
The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905 and officially brought a conclusion to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English, German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a fierce or strong man, or for a man contrasted with a boy, from Middle English, Middle High German man, German Mann ‘man’. In some cases it may have arisen as an occupational name for a servant, from the medieval use of the term to describe a person of inferior social status. The Jewish surname can be artificial.
English and German: from the ancient Germanic personal name Manno, found in Old English as Mann or Manna. This originated either as a byname or else as a short form of a compound name containing the element man ‘man’, such as Hermann .
English: habitational name from the Isle of Man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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