Jane M "Jennie" Shanahan
23 November 1903–1949 (Age 45)
Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
The Life of Jane M "Jennie"
When Jane M "Jennie" Shanahan was born on 23 November 1903, in Fall River, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Patrick Shanahan, was 34 and her mother, Bridget A. O'Hara, was 28. She died in 1949, in Warren, Bristol, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 46.
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Family Time Line
Patrick Shanahan
1869–1938
Bridget A. O'Hara
1875–1915
Mary L. Shanahan
1898–
Edward Shanahan
1901–
Jane M "Jennie" Shanahan
1903–1949
Rita Shanahan
1915–1916
Parents and Siblings
Patrick Shanahan
1869–1938Male
Bridget A. O'Hara
1875–1915Female
siblings
(4)
Mary L. Shanahan
1898–Female
Edward Shanahan
1901–Male
1903–1949Female
Rita Shanahan
1915–1916Female
World Events (8)
1904
Age 1
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1907 · Larchmont sinks
Age 4
On February 11, 1907, a passenger ship gets rammed by a coal carrier just southwest of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. It takes only 10 minutes for the Larchmont to sink. Only 19 of those on board survive. The next day bodies of those that had been on the ship continue to wash up onto the shore.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Age 13
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Irish (Munster): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Seanacháin‘descendant of Seanachán’, a diminutive of Seanach, a personal name from sean ‘ancient’, ‘old’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Sources (3)
- Jennie Shanehan in household of Patrick Shanehan, "United States Census, 1920"
- Jane Shanahan in household of Patrick Shanahan, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jane M. Shannahan, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
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