Brief Life History of Valentine Stean
Valentine Stean Harrington was born on 6 March 1882, in Troup, Smith, Texas, United States. He had at least 6 daughters with Charlotte May McCord. He lived in Justice Precinct 2, Milam, Texas, United States in 1920 and Idalou, Lubbock, Texas, United States in 1930. He died on 22 December 1963, in Bentonville, Benton, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Idalou Cemetery, Idalou, Lubbock, Texas, United States.
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- V S Harrington, "United States Census, 1930"
- V S Harrington, "Texas, County Marriage Records, 1837-1965"
- Valentine Stean Harrington, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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1883 · The Mosaic Templar is Founded
The Mosaic Templar is an African American fraternal organization founded in Little Rock. it was founded by former slaves, John Edward Bush and Chester W. Keatts. It was part of a movement that was going on at the time, where everyone was forming fraternities and sororities. The main departments for this one where endowment, monument, analysis, uniform, rank, recapitulation, records, and a juvenile division.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the three places called Harrington (Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire). The Cumberland placename derives from the Old English personal name Hæfer + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The Lincolnshire placename derives from the Old English personal name Hearra + Old English connective -ing- + tūn. The Northamptonshire derives from an Old English personal name Hǣthhere + Old English connective -ing- + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Compare Herendeen .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hArrachtáin ‘descendant of Arrachtán’, a personal name from a diminutive of arrachtach ‘mighty, powerful’.
Irish: in Kerry, this name was adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIongardail, later Ó hUrdáil, ‘descendant of Iongardal’, a personal name of uncertain origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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