When William Oliver Perry Ball was born on 1 August 1881, in California, United States, his father, William Riley Ball, was 25 and his mother, Missouri Isabell Ball, was 21. He married Marjorie Hellen Wheaton on 3 January 1915, in Mariposa, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in King City, Monterey, California, United States in 1910 and Ceres Judicial Township, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1920. He died on 22 August 1938, in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Modesto Citizens Cemetery, Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Orange, California, United States
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.
English: from Middle English bal, ball(e) ‘ball, sphere, globe, round body’ (Old French balle or Old English beall(a)), a nickname for a short, obese person.
English: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a knoll or rounded hill, from the same Middle English word, bal(le) as in 1 above, but applied topographically.
English: from a Middle English adjective ball (weak form balle) in the sense ‘bald’, from ball ‘white streak, bald place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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