When Sardis Tennant was born on 28 December 1881, in Monongalia, West Virginia, United States, his father, John Calvin Tennant, was 20 and his mother, Martha Jane Emery, was 19. He married Mary Jane Mc Coy on 15 June 1901, in Monongalia, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Paw Paw, Marion, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Fairmont District, Marion, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 11 February 1947, in Marion, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 65.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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