Brief Life History of Arthur Allen
When Arthur Allen Pennington was born on 22 March 1879, in McDonough, Illinois, United States, his father, Joel J. Pennington, was 30 and his mother, Mary Peart, was 26. He married Mariam Agnes Bowles on 24 December 1900, in Custer, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States for about 10 years. He died on 9 December 1955, in Parsons, Labette, Kansas, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Arthur A Pennington, "United States Census, 1910"
- Arthur A Pennington, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Arthur Allen Penninton, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English (mainly Lancashire and Cumbria):
habitational name from Pennington in Furness (Lancashire), which derives from Old English pening ‘penny’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, or from Pennington in Leigh (Lancashire), which probably derives from the Old English personal name Pinna + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas (genitive -inga-) + Old English tūn.
habitational name from Pennington (Hampshire), or from Penton Grafton or Penton Mewsey (both Hampshire); see Penton . All have the same etymology as Pennington in Furness; see 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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