Brief Life History of William Pearl
When William Pearl Gaston was born on 3 October 1900, in Fox River Township, Davis, Iowa, United States, his father, Roseland Pearl Gaston, was 30 and his mother, Essa Anise Quigley, was 23. He married Mabel Alta Dix on 7 June 1923. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in United States in 1949 and King, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 7 June 1970, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
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- Pearl W. Gaston, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Pearl Gaston, "Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950"
- Wm. Pearl Gaston, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1902 · Montana Capital Building Completed
Construction started on the Montana state capital in 1899. In 1902 the capital was completed.
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 The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.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
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Gasto, derived from gast ‘guest, foreigner’, earlier ‘foreign warrior’. This surname is also found in England and Ireland, where it is probably a Huguenot importation. Compare Guest .
English (Sussex): variant of Gasson 1.
English: in Gloucestershire, a variant of Garston , a topographic name or metonymic occupational name denoting someone who lived by or worked in a paddock.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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