Brief Life History of Horace Harden
When Horace Harden Fairbanks was born on 11 June 1893, in Saint Clere, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States, his father, John Horace Fairbanks, was 34 and his mother, Ruth Ann Bailey, was 33. He married Margaret L Rawley on 22 December 1950, in Harris, Texas, United States. He lived in St. Clere Township, Pottawatomie, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Justice Precinct 1, Harris, Texas, United States in 1940. He died in 1956, in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Houston, Harris, Texas, United States.
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- Horace H Fairbanks, "United States Census, 1940"
- Texas, U.S., Birth Index, 1903-1997
- Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Records, 1837-1965
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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.
1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
Name Meaning
habitational name from Fair Banks in Derbyshire or any of various other minor places so called.
variant of Fairbank , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
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Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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