Brief Life History of Owen Danton
When Owen Danton Young was born on 6 February 1893, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, his father, John Mathias Young, was 37 and his mother, Lucy Moriah Copen, was 35. He married Mildred June White on 26 November 1924, in King, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Seattle, King, Washington, United States for about 10 years and Seattle Election Precinct, King, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 24 June 1971, in King, Washington, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
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- Owen Young, "United States Census, 1930"
- Owen D. Young, "West Virginia Births, 1853-1930"
- Owen Danton Young, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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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.
1896 · Utah becomes a state
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1915 · Dinosaur National Monument
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Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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