Brief Life History of Thomas Percy
When Thomas Percy Creighton was born on 25 July 1893, in Waco, Milam, Republic of Texas, his father, Charles Henry Creighton, was 30 and his mother, Florria Ellen McCravey, was 24. He married Maudie Kathleen Morris on 8 May 1926, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1935 and San Bernardino Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 6 January 1941, in Twentynine Palms, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Colton, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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- Thomas O Oreighton in household of Chas H Oreighton, "United States Census, 1910"
- Marriage License and Marriage Certificate
- Thomas Percy Creighton, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: habitational name from Crichton, near Edinburgh, first recorded c. 1128 in the form Crectune, in 1287 as Crecton, and in 1360 as Creychtona. The name is probably an early hybrid compound of Old Welsh creic ‘rock’ + Older Scots tun ‘farm, settlement’ (Old English tūn). In Ireland and Britain, this form of the name is now found chiefly in northern Ireland; the more usual Scottish forms are Crichton and Crighton .
Irish: sometimes used for Gaelic Ó Creacháin or Ó Criocháin (see Crehan ).
English: habitational name from Creighton in Staffordshire, named with Celtic creig ‘rock’ + Old English tūn ‘settlement’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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