When Minnie Pearl Dalton was born on 28 February 1886, in Odessa, Lafayette, Missouri, United States, her father, John Franklin Dalton, was 31 and her mother, Mary Isabelle Fox, was 26. She married Orlando Franklin Harbaugh in February 1905. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Shoal Creek Township, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1940 and Shoal Creek Drive, Newton, Missouri, United States in 1950. She died on 29 February 1972, in Newton, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri, United States.
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The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
English and Irish: habitational name from any of various places called Dalton in Westmorland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, and Yorkshire, from Old English dæl ‘valley’ (see Dale ) + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
History: The surname was taken to Ireland by English traders in the early 13th century .
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