When Barrett White "Bart" Finley was born on 29 July 1884, in Fayetteville, Lincoln, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Tillman Finley, was 25 and his mother, Mary Eveline Grace "Mollie" Talley, was 25. He married Fannie E. Goss in 1902, in Denison, Grayson, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Grayson, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 26 October 1960, in Denison, Grayson, Texas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Denison, Grayson, Texas, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Scottish and Irish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), from fionn ‘white, fair’ (see Finn ) + laoch ‘hero’, reinforced by an Old Norse name based on finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’ or ‘hero’. The name is common in Ireland as well as Scotland.
English: habitational name from one or more lost, unidentified or altered placenames so named, such as Philleyholme, Dorset (recorded as Finelegh in 1280) derived from Old English fīna ‘wood-pecker’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. Also a variant of Findlow, from Finlow Hill in Over Alderley, Cheshire (from Old English fīn ‘heap’ + hlāw ‘mound, hill’ meaning ‘heaped mound’).
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