Brief Life History of Petru
When Petru Bazan was born on 25 June 1891, in Kitsman, Bezirk Kotzman, Bukowina, Austria, his father, Георгій Бажан, was 30 and his mother, Сафта Андрійчук, was 21. He married Pearl Warbick on 18 November 1916, in Manitoba, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Canada in 1897 and lived in Selkirk, Manitoba, Canada for about 5 years and Manitoba, Canada in 1916. He died in May 1974, in Whiting, North Township, Lake, Indiana, United States, at the age of 82.
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- Petro Bazan in household of George Bazan, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Legacy NFS Source: Petru Bazan - Church record: Birth record or certificate: birth-name: Petru Bazan
- Legacy NFS Source: Petru Bazan - Memory of Someone: death: 1965; Whiting, Lake, Indiana, United States
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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.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Jorge, Mario, Pedro, Miguel, Francisco, Guadalupe, Manuel, Ricardo, Rodolfo.
Basque (Castilianized as Bazán): variant of Baztan, a habitational name from the Baztan Valley in Navarre, probably named with Basque az(t)a ‘bramble’ + the locative suffix -an, with the addition of initial B-.
Polish (also Bażan) and Ukrainian: from Polish bażant ‘pheasant’ (from Middle High German fasan(t)), hence a nickname for someone thought to resemble the bird in some way.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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