Brief Life History of Era Cleveland
When Era Cleveland Gilmore was born on 3 October 1885, in Grimes, Texas, United States, her father, Thomas Percy Gilmore, was 47 and her mother, Mary Jane Frances Threadgill, was 40. She married Alfred Wade King on 23 June 1907, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. She died on 13 September 1961, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Copeland Chapel Cemetery, Conroe, Montgomery, Texas, United States.
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- Erie King in household of Alford King, "United States Census, 1910"
- Erie Gilmore, "Texas, County Marriage Index, 1837-1977"
- Arah Gilmore, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish (Ulster and Galway): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Mhoire (Scots), Mac Giolla Mhuire (Irish), patronymics from personal names meaning ‘servant (i.e. devotee) of (the Virgin) Mary’.
Irish: in Sligo, shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Mhir ‘son of the spirited lad’.
English: habitational name from Gillamoor in Rydale (North Yorkshire), from Old English Gedling (‘place called after Gētla’, from the Old English personal name Gētla + the connective particle -ing) + mōr ‘moor’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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