Brief Life History of Arthur Clarence
When Arthur Clarence Proudfoot was born on 16 June 1885, in Taylor, West Virginia, United States, his father, James William Proudfoot, was 46 and his mother, Margaret Jemima Forman, was 44. He married Grace Olive Collins in 1906, in Taylor, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Grafton, Taylor, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Grafton District, Taylor, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 29 March 1942, in Grafton, Taylor, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Grafton, Taylor, West Virginia, United States.
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- Arthur Proudfoot in household of J W Proudfoot, "United States Census, 1900"
- Arthur C. Proudfoot, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
- Arthur Proudfoot, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname for someone with a strutting or swaggering gait, from Older Scots and Middle English proud, prood ‘proud, haughty’ + fote ‘foot’. Alternatively, it may be an alteration by folk etymology of the Older Scots adjective proudfull ‘excessively full, bloated’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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