Brief Life History of John Owen
When John Owen Howard was born on 22 June 1904, in Valley Mills, Bosque, Texas, United States, his father, Albert Sidney Howard, was 24 and his mother, Nellie Whitaker, was 27. He married Lula Elvina Hewett in 1926, in Bosque, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 7, McLennan, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 4 August 1958, in Mexia, Limestone, Texas, United States, at the age of 54.
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- Owen Howard in household of A S Howard, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Owen Howard - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: John Owen Howard
- John Owen Howard, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
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World Events (8)
1905 · Construction of the Praetorian Building
Texas completed the construction of the Praetorian Building (Stone Plane Tower) in 1909. It was the first skyscraper in Texas and the Southwestern United States. The building had 15 stories and was 190 ft tall.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
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.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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