Brief Life History of Earnest Clinton
When Earnest Clinton Tripp was born on 30 April 1898, in Zaleski, Madison Township, Vinton, Ohio, United States, his father, Leonidas Tripp, was 33 and his mother, Ida E. McKnight, was 26. He married Vora Jane Lewis on 21 December 1921, in Vinton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in McArthur, Elk Township, Vinton, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Vinton, Elk Township, Vinton, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 28 February 1981, in Fostoria, Seneca, Ohio, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in McArthur, Elk Township, Vinton, Ohio, United States.
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- Earnest C Tripp im Haushalt von Lon Tripp, „United States Census, 1930“
- Ernest C Tripp im Eintrag für Tripp, „Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003“
- Ernest Tripp, „Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013“
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English trip(pe) (n) ‘(to) dance; stumble’ (Old French tripe(r)), either an occupational name for a dancer, or a nickname for someone who had difficulty walking.
English: metonymic occupational name from Middle English trip(e) ‘tripe’ (Old French tripe).
German: metonymic occupational name for a maker of wooden pattens (trippe), a type of raised sole that could be strapped to normal footwear for walking in unpaved muddy streets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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