Brief Life History of Owen
When Owen Billington was born on 29 January 1894, in Montana, United States, his father, George William Billington, was 25 and his mother, Maude Millicent Gleason, was 20. He lived in Eureka, Juab, Utah, United States in 1910 and Dividend, Utah, Utah, United States in 1930. He died on 26 September 1952, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Payson City Cemetery, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Owen Billington in household of George Billington, "United States Census, 1930"
- Owen Billington, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
- Owen Billington in household of George Billington, "United States Census, 1910"
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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.
1902 · Montana Capital Building Completed
Construction started on the Montana state capital in 1899. In 1902 the capital was completed.
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Billington, in Lancashire, Staffordshire, and Bedfordshire. The first of these is first recorded in 1196 as Billingduna ‘sword-shaped hill’ (see Bill 2); the second is in Domesday Book as Belintone ‘settlement (Old English tūn) of Billa’; the one in Bedfordshire is recorded in 1196 as Billendon, from an Old English personal name Billa + dūn ‘hill’. The place in Lancashire is the most likely source of the surname.
History: John Billington (1580–1630), from Spalding, Lincolnshire, was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620 and an early settler in Plymouth Colony. Governor Bradford called him ‘the profanest’ of the settlers; eventually he was hanged for murder. His son Francis married and had children.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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