Brief Life History of Earl Leroy
When Earl Leroy Knight was born on 2 February 1890, in Charter Oak, Crawford, Iowa, United States, his father, Amos Edwin Knight, was 19 and his mother, Nancy Nannie Jane Wright, was 21. He married Jessie Ethel Neville on 6 January 1917, in Jackson, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Township 7 Range 22, Haakon, South Dakota, United States in 1940 and Topbar Township, Haakon, South Dakota, United States in 1950. He died on 14 February 1958, in Milesville, Haakon, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Philip, Haakon, South Dakota, United States.
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- Earl Knight, "United States 1950 Census"
- Earl L. Knight, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Earl Leroy Knight & Jessie Ethel Neville in the South Dakota, Marriages, 1905-2017
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1891
Historical Boundaries: 1890: Sterling, South Dakota, United States 1893: Stanley, South Dakota, United States 1914: Haakon, South Dakota, United States
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.
1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
Name Meaning
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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