When John Eldredge Westbrook was born on 23 January 1881, in Doddridge, Miller, Arkansas, United States, his father, James Firney Westbrook, was 23 and his mother, Mozzelar Bain, was 18. He married Martha Elizabeth Law on 28 July 1901, in Cass, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons. He lived in Sulphur Township, Miller, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 3, Shackelford, Texas, United States in 1910. He died on 22 January 1971, in Texarkana, Miller, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Sylverino, Miller, Arkansas, 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.
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
English (southeastern): habitational name from any of various places called Westbrook, for example in Berkshire, Kent, and the Isle of Wight, from Old English west ‘west, western’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’.
Americanized form of Dutch Westbroek: habitational name from a place so named near Utrecht.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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