Brief Life History of Lois
When Lois Boston was born about 1891, in Mount Vernon, Jefferson, Illinois, United States, her father, Underwood or Wood Boston, was 17 and her mother, Myrtle M Flannigan, was 17. She married Nathan L Wicks on 28 December 1912, in Jefferson, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in St. Charles Township, Saint Charles, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Mount Vernon Township, Jefferson, Illinois, United States in 1950.
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- Lois M Waiks, "United States 1950 Census"
- Lois Boston, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
- Lois Boston in entry for Kenneth Wicks, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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World Events (8)
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.
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.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the place so named in Lincolnshire, which means ‘Bōtwulf's stone’ (from the Old English personal name Bōtwulf + Old English stān ‘stone’). This has been considered to refer to Saint Botulf, and to be the site of the monastery that he built in the 7th century, but it is more likely that the Bōtwulf of the placename was an ordinary landowner, and that the association with the saint was a later development because of the name.
Americanized form of German Basten or Bastian or of some other similar (like-sounding) surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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