Brief Life History of Floyd Victor
When Floyd Victor Patterson was born on 28 October 1889, in Pilot Grove Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Albert Patterson, was 25 and his mother, Margaret Ann Butler, was 23. He lived in Briggsville, Yell, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Elsberry, Lincoln, Missouri, United States in 1920. He died on 31 May 1938, in Carthage, Hancock, Illinois, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in McKay Cemetery, Hancock, Illinois, United States.
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- Floyd Patterson in household of Albert Patterson, "United States Census, 1920"
- Floyd V. Patterson, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
- Floyd Victor Patterson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
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 northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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