When John Mathew Vernon was born on 16 April 1883, in Arcola, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, United States, his father, Henry George Vernon, was 36 and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Bond, was 26. He married Bertha Beatrice Dicks on 28 December 1902, in Tangipahoa, St. Helena, Louisiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 24 Reese, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1930 and Franklin, Franklin, Mississippi, United States in 1950. He died on 21 October 1951, in Bude, Franklin, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Kentwood, Tangipahoa, Louisiana, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Vernon in Eure, France, named from the Gaulish element ver(n) ‘alder’ + the Gallo-Roman locative suffix -o (genitive -ōnis).
French: habitational name from the same place as in 1 above or from any of several other places in France with the same name and etymology.
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