Brief Life History of John William
When John William Shields was born on 17 July 1889, in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States, his father, George Shields, was 27 and his mother, Agnes Stoker, was 22. He married Ina Molly Erwin on 16 February 1912, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Hazleton, Luzerne, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940 and Churchtown, Salem, New Jersey, United States in 1950. He died on 18 October 1972, in West Chester, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Lawnside Cemetery, Woodstown, Pilesgrove Township, Salem, New Jersey, United States.
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- John W Shields, "United States 1950 Census"
- John William Shields, "Idaho, Birth Index, 1861-1911"
- John W. Shields, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
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1894
Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
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.
1911
The Standard Oil Company had reached a point of almost complete monopoly, managing over 90% of oil flows in the United States. The Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was a large, integrated association that produced, transported, refined, and marketed the product. In 1911, the Supreme Court declared that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. As a result, it was split into 34 smaller companies.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Shield 1 (and perhaps occasionally 2, 3, and 4) with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. In the plural form, the surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived in or near some huts, or habitational, from a place so named, such as North Shields (Northumberland) and South Shields (Durham), though these are unlikely to be the main sources of the surname.
Irish: shortened form of O'Shields , an alternative Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Siadhail; see Shiel .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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