When George Robert Beaver was born on 20 May 1871, in Illinois, United States, his father, Robert Beaver, was 23 and his mother, Julia Grace Vaughn, was 21. He married Kate "Katie" June Workman on 23 November 1892, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Rochester, Sangamon, Illinois, United States for about 40 years and Springfield Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1940. He died on 7 June 1962, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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.
English: habitational name from Belvoir in Leicestershire, pronounced beever (/bi:və/), so named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair, lovely’ + veïr, voir ‘to see’, i.e. a place with a fine view. This name may also be derived from any of several places in France called Beauvoir, for example in Manche, Somme, and Seine-Maritime, all of which have the same etymology as above.
English: nickname from Middle English bever, bevre (Old English beofor) ‘beaver’, possibly referring to a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal. The existence of patronymic forms such as Beaverson suggest that this may also have been a personal name.
Native American (Creek): from a translation into English of the Muscogee Creek clan name Echaswvlke (‘Beaver clan’), derived from a word meaning ‘beaver’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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