Brief Life History of Harry William
When Harry William Just was born on 15 July 1895, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, his father, Henry John Just, was 33 and his mother, Phyllis Elizabeth Pilgrim, was 28. He married Nellie Mae Allen on 17 September 1919, in King, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Dell, Beaverhead, Montana, United States in 1900 and Seattle, King, Washington, United States for about 30 years. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 10 July 1945, in Long Beach, Pacific, Washington, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
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- Harry W Just, "United States Census, 1920"
- Harry William Just, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
- Harry W Just, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1897 · Seattle Grows Quickly
The Klondike gold rush started in 1896 in Canada, but by 1897 as miners started moving and following the gold it caused for Seattle to rapidly grow as more miners joined the search for gold.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Erwin, Christoph, Ernst, Gerhart, Heinz, Helmut, Hildegarde, Horst, Otto, Reinhard, Reinhold.
English, Scottish, German, Danish, Catalan, French, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian, and Hungarian: from a personal name, from Latin Justus, from justus ‘just, upright’. There were several early Christian saints of this name, among them a 4th-century bishop of Lyon and a 6th-century bishop of Urgell in Catalonia. Compare Yust .
English: occasionally perhaps from a nickname, whether French or English, meaning ‘the just one’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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