When Roscoe Thorn was born about 1886, in California, United States, his father, Joseph Camp Thorn, was 23 and his mother, Alice Jane Mathis, was 21. He died in May 1900, at the age of 15, and was buried in Porterville, Tulare, California, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
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.
English and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived by a thorn bush or hedge (Old English, Old Norse thorn, Middle English thorn(e), torn(e)). The name is also found in Sweden.
English: habitational name from a place called with Old English, Old Norse thorn ‘thorn bush’ (see 1 above), for example Thorne in Kent, Somerset, and South Yorkshire.
North German and Danish: topographic name for someone who lived near a tower, from Middle Low German torn ‘tower’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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