Brief Life History of Bertha Ann
When Bertha Ann Dillon was born on 24 July 1876, in Indiana, United States, her father, Orlando Clark Dillon, was 29 and her mother, Catherine E Vanscoich, was 22. She married Edson Taylor Whiteman on 24 July 1925, in St. Joseph, Indiana, United States. She lived in Risingsun, Wood, Ohio, United States in 1930 and South Bend, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. She died on 19 April 1961, at the age of 84, and was buried in North Liberty, Liberty Township, St. Joseph, Indiana, United States.
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- Bertha A Whiteman, "United States 1950 Census"
- Bertha A Dillon Whiteman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Bertha A Dillon, "Indiana, Voter Registers, 1850-1931"
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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 · 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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English, Irish, and French: from the Norman French personal name Dillon, arising from the ancient Germanic Dillo (of uncertain origin, perhaps a byname from the root dil- ‘destroy’).
English: habitational name from Dilwyn in Herefordshire, recorded in 1138 as Dilun, probably from Old English dīglum, dative plural of dīgle ‘settlement at the shady or secret places’.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duilleáin ‘descendant of Duilleán’, a personal name, a variant of Dallán meaning ‘little blind one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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