When Myra Newport was born in 1872, in Texas, United States, her father, James Andrew Newport, was 35 and her mother, Lucinda Hibbard, was 36. She married George Smith on 27 October 1890, in Harris, Texas, United States. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Harris, Texas, United States in 1900 and Shoal Point, Galveston, Texas, United States for about 1 years. She died on 12 May 1956, in Texas City, Galveston, Texas, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in La Marque, Galveston, Texas, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1878: Shoal Point, Galveston, Texas, United States 1893: Texas City, Galveston, Texas, United States
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places with this name in Buckinghamshire, Cornwall, Devon, Essex, Gloucestershire, Isle of Wight, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Somerset, or the East Yorkshire. The placenames derive from Middle English neue ‘new’ + port ‘port, harbour’, also ‘market town’ (Old English nīwe, port).
History: The earliest known bearer of this name in North America was Christopher Newport (died 1617), an English mariner who served with Sir Francis Drake's Cádiz expedition of 1587. In 1592 he commanded a successful privateering expedition to the West Indies, taking 19 Spanish vessels. He married three times and had two daughters and two sons, one of whom, John, lived to acquire land in VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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