When Henry Nelson Harbour was born on 27 August 1892, in Loami, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Harbour, was 42 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Workman, was 37. He married Flara Plina Withers in 1928. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Woodside, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1920. He died on 20 November 1938, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Roselawn Memorial Park, Clear Lake Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
English: nickname or topographic name for someone who kept or lived at a lodging-house, from late Old English herebeorg ‘shelter, lodging’ (from here ‘army’ + beorg ‘shelter’). The change of -er- to -ar- is a regular phonetic process in Middle English. Compare Harbach .
French: variant of Arbour . This form of the surname is virtually non-existing in France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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