Brief Life History of Mary Ellen or Mary C
Mary Ellen or Mary C Alden or Farrow was born on 15 October 1876, in Derry, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, United States. She married John J BRENNAN on 3 July 1894, in Stark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States in 1930. She died on 19 February 1931, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in West View, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mary T Brennan, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mary E. Allden, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Mary Allder... in entry for Brennan, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · Cleveland School of Art
Originally called the Western Reserve School of Design for Women, the Cleveland School of Art is a co-educational school that has highlighted its students works in different arts and designs. After World War II, the school began offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and soon after became the Cleveland Institute of Art. The school today offers 17 different artistic programs all year long.
1894 · May Day Riots of 1894
The May Day Riots were a series of violent demonstrations that occurred throughout the city on May 1. The riots were caused after Cleveland's unemployment rate increased dramatically during the Panic of 1893, causing panic among the unemployed against the city leaders. The most rioters at one time was recorded as a crowd of 5,000 men.
Name Meaning
English: from a Middle English personal name. This is either Aldwin, Aldin (representing Old English Ealdwine with loss of -w-) or Middle English Alwin with an intrusive -d- (see Alwin ), or Aldan, a variant of the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name Healfdene (see Haldane ).
Norwegian: habitational name from a farmstead in western Norway, so named because of its situation below a high mountain Alden, from an unattested word ‘high, standing out’.
History: John Alden (c. 1599–1687) was one of the Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. He moved from Plymouth to Duxbury, MA, c. 1627. Many of his descendants were merchant seamen, among them James Alden (1810–77), who twice circumnavigated the globe.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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