When Ira Thornton was born on 4 January 1899, in Texas, United States, his father, Alfred Brown Thornton, was 23 and his mother, Ellen Mills, was 26. He married Ruth Elizabeth Graham in 1922, in Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Arlington, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1935 and Palo Verde Judicial Township, Riverside, California, United States in 1940. He died in December 1967, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 68.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The placename is most frequent in northern England, especially Yorkshire, where there are at least 16 possible sources for the surname.
Irish: Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic Mac Sceacháin ‘son of Sceachán’ (see Skehan ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Draighneáin ‘descendant of Draighneán’ (see Drennan ).
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