Brief Life History of Milton Henry
When Milton Henry Keck was born in May 1897, in Oklahoma, United States, his father, John Andrew Keck, was 55 and his mother, Mary Ann Wilkerson, was 25. He lived in Case Township, Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States in 1900 and Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. He died on 14 January 1916, in Moore, Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Moore, Cleveland, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Milton Keck in household of John Keck, "United States Census, 1900"
- Milton H Keck, "Find A Grave Index"
- Milton H Keck in household of John Keck, "United States Census, 1910"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire): nickname from the Middle English reflex of the Old Norse personal name Keikr (from Old West Scandinavian keikr ‘bent backwards’) or Kekkja.
English (Gloucestershire): nickname, possibly from keck, backformed from kex, used through much of southern England as the name of a range of umbelliferous plants having a hollow stalk when dried, for instance cow parsley, cow parsnip, and hemlock, as well as teasel (with parallels in Scandinavia).
German: nickname from Middle High German kēc ‘lively, active’ (cognate of English quick), which later changed its meaning to ‘bold, forward, fresh’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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