Brief Life History of John Benton
When John Benton Wight was born on 18 September 1882, in Blanco, Texas, United States, his father, Levi Lysander Wight, was 30 and his mother, Martha Bell Dunman, was 32. He married Susan Vashti Bennett on 15 September 1910, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Supervisorial District 2, Pinal, Arizona, United States in 1940 and Superior, Pinal, Arizona, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 22 September 1959, in Pinal, Arizona, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Superior, Pinal, Arizona, United States.
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- John B Wight, "United States 1950 Census"
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- John B. Wight, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: nickname from Middle English wiht, wight ‘agile, nimble, strong, brave’ (Old Norse víg with the Old Norse neuter suffix -t, for which compare the word scant), or from the corresponding Older Scots word wicht. Possibly sometimes a nickname from Middle English wight ‘living creature; small portion or thing’, or from the corresponding Older Scots word wicht.
English: habitational name from the Isle of Wight. The island is recorded as Vectis (its Latin name) c. 150 AD . Its name derives from a British word, perhaps related to Welsh gwaith ‘turn, course’, meaning ‘place of the division’, in reference to the island's position in the Solent.
English and Scottish: variant of White .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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