Brief Life History of Jonah Calvin
When Jonah Calvin Taylor was born on 19 November 1892, in Furr Township, Stanly, North Carolina, United States, his father, Ephriam Millard Taylor, was 22 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Tucker, was 20. He married Hattie Isabelle Mills about 1912, in North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Locust, Stanly, North Carolina, United States in 1976. He died on 5 October 1976, in Albemarle, Stanly, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Stanly, North Carolina, United States.
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- Jonah Taylor, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jonah C Taylor - Government record: birth-name: Jonah C Taylor
- Jonah Taylor, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
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World Events (8)
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.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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