When Carey Weston Modlin was born on 10 November 1871, in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank, North Carolina, United States, his father, Samuel Modlin, was 37 and his mother, Mary Eliza Turner, was 27. He married Zenovah Hill Seeley on 27 December 1893, in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Providence Township, Pasquotank, North Carolina, United States in 1900 and Norfolk, Norfolk County, Virginia, United States in 1910. He died on 5 September 1910, in Berkeley, Berkeley, Virginia, United States, at the age of 38.
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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.
In 1877, the last of the troops that were occupying North Carolina left.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Jewish (from Belarus): patronymic from the Yiddish personal name Modle, a pet form of Mordecai + the Slavic possessive suffix -in.
English (northern): unexplained.
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