When Annie Laura Haddon was born on 10 April 1896, in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States, her father, Chalmers Haddon Jr, was 24 and her mother, Katherine Wingate, was 24. She married Martin Herro Arends on 10 June 1920, in Putnam, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died on 23 June 1976, in Jacksonville, Duval, Florida, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Dunn Creek Cemetery, Dunn Creek, Duval, Florida, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Florida played a critical role during the Spanish-American War. The port of Tampa saw the arrival of over 30,000 troops; this traffic resulted in the small town experiencing massive growth and becoming a city. Cuban-Americans across the state also helped with raising money and support for the war.
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Devon, named with Old English hǣth ‘heathland, heather’ + dūn ‘hill’, or from Haddon in Cambridgeshire, which is probably named from the Old English personal name Headda + dūn.
Scottish: variant of Hadden .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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