Brief Life History of Marvin Cooper
When Marvin Cooper Watts was born on 29 July 1893, in Howell, Missouri, United States, his father, Jerome Henry Watts, was 38 and his mother, Emma Alice Cooper, was 24. He married Fern B. Duff about 1916, in Rice, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, United States in 1930 and Wichita, Sedgwick, Kansas, United States for about 10 years.
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- Marvin C Watts, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Marvin C Watts - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Marvin C Watts
- Marvin Cooper Watts, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
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.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Watt , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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