Daisey F. Honeyman

Female8 August 1883–27 July 1957

Brief Life History of Daisey F.

When Daisey F. Honeyman was born on 8 August 1883, in Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States, her father, Hiram Honeyman, was 29 and her mother, Eliza Virginia Sturgeon, was 21. She lived in Somerset, New Jersey, United States in 1900 and Branchburg Township, Somerset, New Jersey, United States in 1910. She died on 27 July 1957, at the age of 73.

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Carl Jurgenson
1879–
Daisey F. Honeyman
1883–1957

Sources (2)

  • Daisy Honeyman in household of Hiram Honeyman, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Daisy F Honeymon in household of Hiram Honeymon, "United States Census, 1910"

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World Events (8)

1886

Age 3

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1894

Age 11

Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.

1903

Age 20

The Public Service Corporation (PSC) was formed on May 6, 1903. The company began as a merger of a power company with four different trolley companies. PSC would ultimately combine with over 400 other companies.

Name Meaning

English and Scottish (Fife): occupational name for a beekeeper or honey seller, from Middle English honi + man (Old English hunig + mann).

English: from the Middle English personal name Honeman (Old English Hūnmann ‘bear-cub’ + ‘man’).

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

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