Brief Life History of William Thomas
When William Thomas Hopper was born on 24 September 1873, in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, his father, Joseph M Hopper, was 39 and his mother, Nancy Ann Roy, was 40. He married Eliza Ellen Dalton on 27 December 1897, in Helenwood, Scott, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Magisterial District 2 Jenkins, Casey, Kentucky, United States in 1880 and Casey, Kentucky, United States in 1910. He died on 29 June 1919, in Pulaski, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States.
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- Wm Hopper, "United States Census, 1910"
- W T Happer, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- William T Hopper, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dancer, from an agent derivative of Middle English hoppen ‘to dance, hop, leap’ (Old English hoppian). See Hoppe 4.
English: topographic name from Middle English hoper, hopper, in Sussex and Kent denoting someone who lived at a remote place, probably an enclosed piece of land in marsh. The name derives from Middle English hop (see Hope ) + -er, and was interchangeable with (atte) hope.
English: possibly a variant of Hooper .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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