Brief Life History of James Floyd
When James Floyd Farmer was born on 25 August 1872, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, Peter Stephens Farmer, was 29 and his mother, Harriett A Edwards, was 25. He married Irena Stella Worrell on 29 December 1897, in Carroll, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Sulphur Springs District, Carroll, Virginia, United States in 1900 and Sulphur Spring, Tazewell, Virginia, United States in 1910. He died on 13 February 1940, in Woodlawn, Carroll, Virginia, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Woodlawn, Carroll, Virginia, United States.
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- James F Farmer in household of Peter S Farmer, "United States Census, 1880"
- James Farmer, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- James Farmer, "Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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