Brief Life History of Flor de Oro
When Flor de Oro Trujillo Ledesma was born on 7 July 1915, in San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic, her father, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, was 23 and her mother, Aminta Ledesma Lachapelle, was 29. She married Porfirio Enrique Rubirosa Ariza on 2 December 1932, in San José de Las Matas, San José de Las Matas, Santiago, Dominican Republic. She immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1930. She died on 15 February 1978, in New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Cementerio Máximo Gómez, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic.
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- Flor de Oro Trujillo y Ledesma, "Find A Grave Index"
- Flor De Oro Trujillo, "Listas de pasajeros y tripulantes de Nueva York, 1909, 1925-1957"
- Flor De Oro Trujillo en el registro de Capt Maurice Marshall Berck, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
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.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Ruben, Pedro, Jesus, Miguel, Raul, Jorge, Alfonso, Francisco.
Spanish: habitational name from the city so named in Cáceres province, called in Latin Turgalium, which is probably of Arabic origin. This place was the home of various conquistadors, hence its great frequency in the Americas. Compare Truxillo .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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