When Oscar McKinley Silvey was born on 12 November 1896, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Charles Oscar Silvey, was 22 and his mother, Ollie Alice Baugh, was 18. He married Lena Ruth Fortner on 15 May 1919. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Lewisburg, Logan, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died in November 1981, in Logan, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Dunmor, Muhlenberg, Kentucky, United States.
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After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
English: perhaps from the Middle English personal name Silveyn, with loss of final -n; see Selwyn 2. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Selvy .
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