Brief Life History of Anna M
When Anna M Blair was born on 4 April 1876, in Northville, Wayne, Michigan, United States, her father, William Blair Sr, was 43 and her mother, Maria Susan Gillette, was 37. She married Frederick Alanson Fry on 9 August 1899. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Detroit Ward 10, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1910 and Detroit Ward 12, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1920. She died on 14 April 1968, at the age of 92, and was buried in Northville, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- Anna Fry, "United States Census, 1930"
- Anna Blain, "Michigan Births, 1867-1902"
- Anna M. Blair, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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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.
1881 · Center of Stove Manufacturing
"During the late 19th century, cast-iron stove manufacturing became Detroit's top industry and later the city received the nickname, ""Stove Capital of the World."""
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places in Scotland called Blair, named with Scottish Gaelic blàr (genitive blàir) ‘plain, field’, especially a battlefield (Irish blár). There were families of this name in the Middle Ages taking their names from any of the places called Blair in Dysart parish Fife, Dalry parish Ayrshire, and Blairgowrie in Perthshire.
Americanized form of French Belair and Blais .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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