Brief Life History of Ira Houston
When Ira Houston Warren was born on 13 February 1873, in Lawrence, Alabama, United States, his father, William Edward Warren, was 46 and his mother, Nancy Jane Lanier, was 37. He lived in United States in 1949 and Griffin Township, Conway, Arkansas, United States in 1950. He died on 2 January 1963, in Hot Springs, Garland, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 89.
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- Ira H Warren, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: Wars Warren - Published information: birth-name: Wars Warren
- Ira Houston Warren, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Warin, Werin, a borrowing of ancient Germanic Warino, a short form of various compound names based on the element warin ‘protection, shelter’ or ‘guard’. Compare Waring .
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from La Varrenne in Seine-Maritime, France, named with a Gaulish element probably descriptive of alluvial land or sandy soil. This was the name of a major Norman family after the Conquest. In Ireland, this name has been Gaelicized as Bharain.
Irish: adopted as an English form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane , Warner ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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