When Ivy Myrtle Pinson was born in January 1899, in Kentucky, United States, her father, John Wesley Pinson, was 25 and her mother, Angeline Stratton, was 14. She lived in Magisterial District 7, Pike, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and John's Creek, Pike, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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 Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
English: variant of Pinchin, from the Old French personal name Pinçun, Normano-Picard Pinchon, apparently derived from Old French pinçon ‘finch’.
French: from Old French pinson ‘finch’, a nickname applied to someone who whistles or sings like a finch or to a bright and cheerful person.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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