Eleanor Blackstone Crissey

Brief Life History of Eleanor Blackstone

When Eleanor Blackstone Crissey was born on 16 May 1903, in New York, United States, her father, Harlow Jacob Crissey, was 32 and her mother, Jessie Lucretia Blackstone, was 34. She married Lauritz Royal Christensen on 2 May 1942, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. She immigrated to Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1922 and lived in Coronado, San Diego, California, United States in 1920 and Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States in 1920. She died on 5 May 1966, in Holland Township, Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Jamestown, Chautauqua, New York, United States.

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Family Time Line

Lauritz Royal Christensen
1914–1997
Eleanor Blackstone Crissey
1903–1966
Marriage: 2 May 1942

Sources (11)

  • Eleanor B Crissey in household of Jessie B Crissey, "New York State Census, 1905"
  • Eleanor Blackstone Crissey, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Eleanor B Crissey, "Vermont, St. Albans Canadian Border Crossings, 1895-1954"

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World Events (8)

1904

St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York

Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

Name Meaning

English: unexplained.

Possibly an Americanized form of Swiss German Krüsi, a variant of Kruse , or Kriesi, a variant of Kries .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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