Edward Byrnes (1870 - 1949)

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Edward's Family

Byrnes Frederick Byrnes

Ellen Downes Byrnes

Edward Byrnes

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Byrnes Frederick Byrnes

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Ellen Downes Byrnes

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Donald Charles Joseph Byrnes

Added: Aug 29, 2014

Elizabeth Veronica Tierney

Added: Aug 12, 2014

Richard James Hope

Added: Aug 12, 2014

Donald Charles Joseph Byrnes

Added: Jul 25, 2014

Fay Patricia (Hope) Byrnes

Added: Jul 25, 2014

Donald Charles Joseph Byrnes

Added: Jul 25, 2014

Mrs Elizabeth Hope nee Maher

Added: Jul 24, 2014

Honorah (Williams) Byrnes

Added: Jul 24, 2014

Donald & Fay (Hope) Byrnes, 1950

Added: Jul 24, 2014

Donald Charles Joseph Byrnes

Added: Jul 24, 2014

FDR Relief Program - New Deal

Added: Jan 09, 2012

Sarrah Ann Byrnes Donohue

Added: Nov 07, 2003

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In 1870, in the year that Edward Byrnes was born, on January 26th, the state of Virginia rejoined the Union. On February 23rd, Mississippi was readmitted to the Union. On March 30th, Texas was readmitted to the Union. And on July 15th, Georgia became the last Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.

In 1887, he was 17 years old when on January 20th, the US Senate gave the US Navy the right to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base. Pearl Harbor is on the island of Oahu, a part of the Hawaiian Islands. The Navy was given direction to maintain "a coaling and repair station" at the harbor.

In 1905, at the age of 35 years old, Edward was alive when acclaimed dancer Isadora Duncan established the first school of modern dance in Berlin Germany. Isadora Duncan, born in San Francisco California, dedicated herself to the creation of beauty - through dance. Her focus on the movement of the human body rather than formal kinds of dance helped to give rise to the modern dance movement.

In 1924, by the time he was 54 years old, in May, wealthy college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnapped and killed 14 year old Robert Franks "in the interest of science". Leopold and Loeb thought that they were intellectually superior and that they could commit the perfect crime and not be caught. They were brought in for questioning within 8 days and quickly confessed. Clarence Darrow was hired as their defense lawyer, getting them life imprisonment instead of a death sentence. Loeb was eventually killed in prison - Leopold was released after 33 years, dying of a heart attack at age 66.

In 1949, in the year of Edward Byrnes's passing, on January 25th, the first Emmy Awards (for television) were handed out in Los Angeles. Shirley Dinsdale won for the Most Outstanding Television Personality and Pantomime Quiz Time earned an Emmy for the Most Popular Television Program.