Brief Life History of Emily Ada
When Emily Ada Curry was born on 29 August 1880, in Hortonville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada, her father, Frederick George Curry, was 40 and her mother, Emily Ada Simson, was 29. She married Benjamin Arthur Whittemore on 8 July 1916, in Hortonville, Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1901 and Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 20 years. She died on 18 June 1972, at the age of 91, and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Emily Whittemore in household of Benjamin Whittemore, "United States Census, 1940"
- Emily Ada Curry, "Nova Scotia Marriages, 1907-1932"
- Emily Ada Curry Whittemore, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Comhraidhe, ‘descendant of Comhraidhe’, a personal name of uncertain meaning.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Corra (see Corr ).
Scottish and northern English: variant of Currie .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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