When John Zillman Warden was born on 20 April 1872, in Columbia, Maury, Tennessee, United States, his father, Aquila McClease Warden, was 30 and his mother, Mary Caledonia Journey, was 17. He married Eula Grant Hartley on 18 December 1901. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1910 and Birmingham, Jefferson, Alabama, United States in 1930. He died in 1952, in Dade, Florida, United States, at the age of 80.
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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.
The Episcopal Diocese of Florida organized a mission church in 1878 to provide a location that could serve seasonal guests. Visitors and residents from Green Cove Springs raised over $1000 to build the church. On March 10, 1879, the Church held its first service. This location is notable because it would eventually be added to U.S. National Register of Historic Places (February 17, 1978).
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 and Scottish: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Anglo-Norman French wardein, Old French gardein ‘one who keeps guard, a warden’, i.e. a gate-keeper, porter, or sentinel.
English: habitational name from any of various places, for example in Bedfordshire, County Durham, Kent, Northumerland, and Northamptonshire, called Warden, from Old English weard ‘watch’ + dūn ‘hill’. Compare Wardlaw and Wardle 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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