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Atherton is known for its high concentration of wealth; in 1990 and 2019, [10] Atherton was ranked as having the highest per capita income among U.S. places that have a population between 2,500 and 9,999, [11] and the area covered by its ZIP Code is regularly ranked as having the highest cost of living in the United States.
Cornelius Atherton (1737–1809), was an iron manufacturer, an inventor and an active gunmaker for patriot cause during the American Revolutionary War. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He became closely involved in the first large scale production of "American Steel". [ 4 ]
Warren Hendry Atherton (December 28, 1891 – March 7, 1976) was an American attorney who was the national commander of The American Legion from 1943 to 1944. [1] He is widely recognized as a designer of the G.I. Bill , officially known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.
Faxon Dean Atherton, Jr (1855–1922) was also known as Francisco Fascon Atherton was born on September 12, 1857, in Valparaíso, Chile. He married "Jeanie" (also known as Jane/Jenny) Selby, the daughter of Thomas Henry Selby. Florence (Atherton) Eyre (1861–1934). She was born 1861.
There, she founded the "Home School for Shorthand and Typewriting" (1883), and ten years later, the "Chandler Normal Shorthand School", chiefly for the training of teachers, the first school of its kind in the U.S. In 1895, Atherton called a "Public School Shorthand Convention", the first in the history of shorthand education. Also in that year ...
Charles H. Atherton, said that Humphrey Atherton, his wife and three young children arrived at the colony in the ship James, August 7, 1635, [15] but there is no record of this. [8] He further said that Atherton and his wife were each about 15 years old when they were married. [15] There is a record of Nathaniel Wales having voyaged on the ...
James Atherton (c. 1624–1710) [1] was an early settler and one of the founders of Lancaster, Massachusetts. He emigrated to the New England Colonies from the parish of Wigan , Lancashire , England, in 1635.
Atherton was recorded as Aderton in 1212 and 1242, and Atherton in 1259. [2] Opinions differ as to the derivation of the name. One is the farmstead or village of a man named Aethelhere, an Old English personal name and the suffix tun, meaning an enclosure, farmstead or manor estate; [4] [5] another is adre, Saxon for little brook with the suffix tun. [6]