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Madison Olivia

Kathryn and Ryan have chosen the name Madison Olivia for their beautiful new girl born at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
Birth Statistics
Weight: 5 pounds and 13 ounces
Length: 19 inches
Time: 8:15 p.m.
Date: Monday, October 26, 2009

Origin of the name Madison
English, Teutonic - "Child of Matthew"

Monday, October 26, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . .

The Weather:

The sun rose over Lane County at 7:42 a.m. and set at 6:10 p.m.
Local high: 59
Local low: 44
The nation's weather extremes were 103 at Laredo, Texas and 8 at Northway, Alaska

In the financial world

The Dow Jones closed at 9,867.96
Minimum Wage was $8.40

and the prices of some big and little ticket items were

Loaf of bread: $2.49
Gallon of milk: $3.85
Average New Home: $239,000.00
New Car: $21,750.00
Gallon of gasoline: $2.78
First class stamp: $0.44

Populations:

Eugene/Springfield 185,160
U.S. Population: 306,532,223

Madison Olivia shares her birthday with these other interesting people

1786 - Henry Deringer - American inventor a firearms manufacturer known for the tiny deringer pistol fancied by professional gamblers in the Old West.
1854 - Charles Post - American food processing entrepreneur and innovator who founded the giant Post cereal company and invented "Grape Nuts."
1946 - Hillary Rodham Clinton - Attorney, political activist and First Lady of the United States and wife of 42nd U.S. President Bill Clinton.

There have been some other notable events on this day in history

1774 - The legendary citizen fighting force known as "The Minute Men" was organized in America. Six months later they would see the first action of the American War of Independence at Concord.
1825 - The economic influence of mid-America was greatly enhanced with the opening of the 350 mile long Erie Canal that connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River.
1858 - Inventor Hamilton Erastus Smith received a patent for a hand-cranked, rotary motion washing machine, a huge improvement over the tub and washboard method used previously.
1881 - Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan and Doc Holliday stepped into Western folklore as they routed the Clanton gang at the "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral."

Happy Birthday Madison
 from your friends at
Sacred Heart Medical Center