When Lester Sterling Dewey Tennant was born on 26 April 1898, in Clay District, Monongalia, West Virginia, United States, his father, John Calvin Tennant, was 37 and his mother, Martha Jane Emery, was 36. He married Iva Vernon Armstrong on 29 January 1942, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States. He lived in United States in 1949 and Clifton Forge, Virginia, United States in 1950. He died on 12 November 1954, in Clifton Forge, Alleghany, Virginia, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Collierstown Presbyterian Cemetery, Collierstown, Rockbridge, Virginia, United States.
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On March 11, 1899 the USS Shubrick was laid, on October 31, 1899 it was launched. The ship was named after William Branford Shubrick. It was sponsored by Miss Caroline Shubrick and commissioned in 1901 with Lt Allen M Cook in command.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Scottish and English: status name for a farmer who held his land from an overlord by obligations of rent or service, from Middle English tena(u)nt ‘tenant’ (Old French tenant). This was the normal situation for landholders in the Middle Ages, since in the feudal system all land belonged ultimately to the king and use of it was granted in return for financial or military support.
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