When Daniel Leroy London was born on 13 November 1872, in Cashiers, Jackson, North Carolina, United States, his father, Harvey Rush Brownlow London, was 33 and his mother, Martha Ann Rochester, was 27. He married Jetta Peigler on 25 January 1895. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 25 August 1908, in North Carolina, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Green Hills Cemetery, Asheville, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States.
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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.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone who came from London or a nickname for someone who had made a trip to London or had some other connection with the city. In some cases however, the Jewish name was purely artificial. The placename, recorded by the Roman historian Tacitus in the Latinized form Londinium, is obscure in origin and meaning, but may be derived from pre-Celtic (Old European) roots with a meaning something like ‘place at the navigable or unfordable river’.
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