Brief Life History of Fred Arthur
When Fred Arthur Vincent was born on 22 December 1874, in New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Thomas Allen Vincent, was 27 and his mother, Joanna Ross, was 19. He married Constance Lillian Fayle on 17 July 1899, in Island Falls, Aroostook, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1900 and Stockton Springs, Waldo, Maine, United States in 1910. He died on 26 September 1948, in Searsport, Waldo, Maine, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Searsport, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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- Fred Vincent, "United States Census, 1940"
- Fred A Vincent, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
- Fred A. Vincent, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
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.
Name Meaning
English, French, West Indian (mainly Haiti), and Spanish: from the personal name Vincent, Latin Vincentius, a derivative of vincens, genitive vincentis, present participle of vincere ‘to conquer’. The name was borne by a 3rd-century Spanish martyr widely venerated in the Middle Ages and by a 5th-century monk and writer of Lérins, as well as various other early Christian saints.
Irish: the English surname (see 1 above) has been established in the south of Ireland since the 17th century, and has also been adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Dhuibhinse ‘son of the dark man of the island’.
History: The surname Vincent of French origin (see 1 above) is listed in the register of Huguenot ancestors recognized by the Huguenot Society of America and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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