Brief Life History of George Heller
When George Heller Collier was born on 28 March 1891, in Farmer City, DeWitt, Illinois, United States, his father, Americus D Collier, was 27 and his mother, Mary Bertha Heller, was 24. He married Ethel Bernice Millar on 20 December 1916, in Bonneville, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Delta, Delta, Colorado, United States in 1910 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1920. He died in 1922, at the age of 31, and was buried in Hollywood, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- George Collier in household of A D Collier, "United States Census, 1910"
- George Collier, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- George H Collier, "Idaho, County Marriages, 1864-1950"
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World Events (8)
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English colier, in most parts of the country ‘maker or seller of charcoal’, but in some areas (such as Bolton le Moors and Wigan, Lancashire) where coal measures were near the surface, ‘miner or seller of coal’ (in the modern sense, ‘fossil fuel’). The name was taken to Ireland from England and was first recorded there in 1305. In Petty's ‘census’ of 1659, it was recorded as a principal surname in Meath.
English: occupational name from Middle English coilour, coliour, culliour, Old French coileor, coillour ‘tax collector’. Surnames with this origin seem to have died out in Britain.
French (northern): from collier ‘collar’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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