When Arthur Benjamin Bentley was born on 24 November 1872, in Eaton, Michigan, United States, his father, Benjamin Lafayette Bentley, was 44 and his mother, Charlotte Maria Roth, was 37. He married Maud Myrtilda McEwen on 21 August 1901, in Eaton Rapids, Eaton, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Onondaga, Onondaga Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States for about 10 years and Onondaga Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States in 1940. He died on 30 December 1954, in Eaton, Michigan, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Eaton Rapids, Eaton, Michigan, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
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: habitational name from any of various places, the chief of which are in Derbyshire, Essex, Hampshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and East and South Yorkshire. The placename is from Old English beonet ‘bent grass’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
In some cases also an Americanized form of South German Bentele or of its Swiss German or South German cognates Bandle and Bandli.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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