When Willie Petrey was born in January 1897, in Whitley, Kentucky, United States, his father, Adam Nelson Petrey, was 30 and his mother, Nancy Wyatt, was 29. He lived in Magisterial District 3, Whitley, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died in 1901, at the age of 4.
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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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
Scottish: variant of Petrie . This surname is now rare in Britain.
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