When Charles Littleton Younger was born on 23 January 1871, in Mitchell, Wheeler, Oregon, United States, his father, Nero Littleton Younger, was 28 and his mother, Nancy Jane Young, was 21. He married Catherine Anna Kitty Smith on 16 January 1893, in Grant, Oregon, United States. He lived in Malheur City, Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Marysville Placer, Grant, Oregon, United States in 1920. He died on 15 November 1948, in John Day, Grant, Oregon, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Canyon City Cemetery, Canyon City, Grant, Oregon, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Historical Boundaries: 1872: White Pine, Nevada, United States
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.
English (mainly Northumberland and eastern Scotland): from Middle English yungre ‘younger’, comparative of Young , used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In one case, at least, however, the name is known to have been borne by an immigrant Fleming, and was probably an Americanized form of Middle Dutch jongheer ‘young nobleman’ (see Jonker ).
Americanized form of various cognate or like-sounding names in other languages, notably German Junger and Junker , or Dutch Jonker .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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