Brief Life History of Arthur Marion
When Arthur Marion White Sr was born on 8 August 1878, in Oakville, Lawrence, Alabama, United States, his father, Andrew Bennett White, was 23 and his mother, Alice Smithson, was 20. He married Emma Whitfield Hampton on 30 May 1897, in Lawrence, Cherokee, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 9 Oakville, Lawrence, Alabama, United States in 1900 and Hartselle, Morgan, Alabama, United States in 1920. He died on 3 March 1956, in Morgan, Alabama, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Hartselle, Morgan, Alabama, United States.
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- Arther White, "United States Census, 1880"
- Arthur M. White, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
- A M White in entry for Arthur Marion White and Estelle Gibson, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
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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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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