Brief Life History of Margaret
Margaret Dwyer was born on 5 August 1872, in Illinois, United States as the daughter of John Dwyer and Margaret O'Donnell. She had at least 2 sons with John Richard Grant. She lived in Deerfield, Lake, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1920. She died on 5 December 1957, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 85.
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Family Time Line
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- Margaret Grant in household of John R Grant, "United States Census, 1900"
- Margaret Grant, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Margaret Grant, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1881
Arizona
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Parnell, Liam, Brigid, Cormac, Oonagh, Patrick Michael.
Irish (southern Ireland): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dubhuidhir, a variant of Ó Duibhidhir (see Diver ), or Mac Duibhidhir ‘descendant of Duibhuidhir’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark, black’ + odhar ‘sallow, tawny’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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