When Lester H Tilson was born on 8 June 1883, in Savannah, Andrew, Missouri, United States, his father, William Harvey Tilson, was 43 and his mother, Emaline Dobbs, was 41. He married Lora Pearl Nickels on 31 May 1906, in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States. He lived in Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Election Precinct 7 North Platte, Adams, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 25 May 1957, in Brighton, Adams, Colorado, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Brighton, Adams, Colorado, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
In 1890, Robert Miller Womack discovers a rich gold deposit along Cripple Creek, near the western slope of Pikes Peak. This would become the richest gold strike in the Rocky Mountin area.
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English (mainly northern Midlands and Yorkshire): metronymic from the Middle English female personal name Till (a pet form of Matilda) + -son, i.e. ‘son of Till’. Compare Tillotson .
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