Brief Life History of Catherine
When Catherine Shutty was born on 18 November 1881, in Spišský Hrušov, Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia, her father, Josephus Shutty, was 26 and her mother, Maria Janetsko, was 24. She had at least 6 sons and 5 daughters with Andrew Sofranko. She lived in East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910. She died on 20 April 1960, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Katie Sofranko in household of Andy Sofranko, "United States Census, 1910"
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- Catherine Shutty Sofranko in entry for Irene C Depree, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1886
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1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Shutt .
Americanized form of German Schutte .
Americanized form of Croatian and Slovenian Šute, and probably also of its cognate Šutej (see Shutey , compare Shute 2).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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