Brief Life History of Ora Amos
When Ora Amos Thompson was born on 15 January 1877, in Bingham Township, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Levi Jared Thompson, was 31 and his mother, Rachel Permelia Lewis, was 29. He married Amy Jane Keech in 1901, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Clara Township, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 13 February 1947, in Genesee Township, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Genesee Cemetery, Genesee, Genesee Township, Potter, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Ora Thompson in household of Grant Peterson, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Amos Ora Thompson - Government record: birth-name: Amos Ora Thompson
- Amos Ora Thompson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the 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.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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