Maria Aguilar

Female1893–

Brief Life History of Maria

When Maria Aguilar was born in 1893, in Glen Flora, Wharton, Texas, United States, her father, Pedro Aguilar, was 23 and her mother, Catharina Perez, was 21. She married Domingo De Soliz on 22 January 1760, in Santo Domingo, Chilón, Chiapas, Mexico.

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Domingo De Soliz
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Maria Aguilar
1893–

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  • Maria Aguilar, "México, matrimonios, 1570-1950"

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World Events (3)

1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company

Age 1

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

Age 3

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.

1898 · War with the Spanish

Age 5

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.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Luis, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Jesus, Miguel, Mario, Jorge, Francisco, Pedro, Raul.

Spanish and Catalan: habitational name from any of numerous places called Aguilar, from Latin aquilare ‘haunt of eagles’ (a derivative of aquila ‘eagle’), for example Aguilar de Campo in Palencia, Aguilar de la Frontera in Córdoba, and Aguilar de Segarra in Catalonia. Compare Aquilar .

Jewish (Sephardic): adoption of the Iberian surname (see 1 above) at the moment of conversion to Roman Catholicism. After the return to Judaism (generations later), some descendants retained the name their families used as Catholics.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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