Brief Life History of Richard Thomas
When Richard Thomas Wagnon was born on 8 July 1901, in Texas, United States, his father, Joseph Marion Wagnon Jr, was 28 and his mother, Iva Ella Griffin, was 25. He married Bernice Beverly Adams on 25 April 1920, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 26 January 1973, in South El Monte, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 71.
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- Richard Wagnon, "United States Census, 1940"
- Richard T Wagnon, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Richard Thomas Wagnon, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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World Events (8)
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
Swiss French and northern French: occupational name for a farmer or peasant, from a regional Swiss French diminutive noun derivative of the Old French verb gaaignier ‘to cultivate or work (the land)’ or from a diminutive of Walloon and Picard wagneu(r) ‘farmer’; compare Gagnon 1. This surname is also found in Belgium (mainly Wallonia).
French: habitational name from a place in Novion-Porcien (Ardennes), so named from the ancient Germanic personal name Wanio.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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