Brief Life History of Clair Montgomery
When Clair Montgomery Phillips was born on 4 March 1898, in Belpre, Washington, Ohio, United States, his father, James William Phillips, was 25 and his mother, Barbara Virginia Rogers, was 21. He married Hazel Athena Bennett on 9 June 1932. He lived in United States in 1949 and Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, United States in 1950. He died on 24 September 1977, in Nueces, Texas, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Corpus Christi, Nueces, Texas, United States.
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- Clair M Phillips, "United States 1950 Census"
- Clair Montgomery Phillips, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- Clair Montgomery Phillips, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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