When Marion Azriah Henson was born on 11 May 1874, in Patton, Bollinger, Missouri, United States, his father, Alferd Boyd Henson, was 20 and his mother, Seralda Jane Killian, was 22. He married Minnie Alen Griffin on 15 April 1906, in Madison, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 21 July 1963, in Fredericktown, Louisiana Territory, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Marquand, Madison, Missouri, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal names Hen, Hend(e), or Hendy (pet forms of Henry or Hendry ) + son. Compare Henderson . Hendy may also have been derived from Middle English hendy ‘courteous’, used as a personal name (see Hendy ).
English: perhaps sometimes a variant of Hainson, a patronymic meaning ‘son of Hayne’; see Hain 2.
English: in Devon, where patronymics in -son rarely originated, perhaps a variant of Hingston .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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