Brief Life History of Joseph Adin
When Joseph Adin Major was born on 17 December 1897, in Ventress, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, United States, his father, Francois Zacharie Major, was 26 and his mother, Marie Clothilde Jewell, was 21. He lived in Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, United States in 1930 and Police Jury Ward 7, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, United States in 1940. He died on 7 September 1977, in Louisiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Lakeland, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, United States.
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- Adin Major, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Adain Major - birth: 17 December 1897; Pointe Coupee, Pointe Coupee, Louisiana, United States
- Adin Major in entry for Mrs Adele Major and Mrs Swindler, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the personal name Malg(i)er, Maug(i)er, an Old French form of ancient Germanic Madalgar(i) (see Mauger ).
Hungarian: from a shortened form of majorosgazda (see Majoros ) or a derivative of German Meyer .
Polish, Czech, and Slovak: from the military rank major (derived from Latin maior ‘greater’), a word related to English mayor and the German surname Meyer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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