When John Wallace Fenton was born on 18 December 1874, in Elk District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States, his father, George W Fenton Jr, was 25 and his mother, Ruhanna Whitehair, was 22. He married Rosa Lee Shrader on 20 September 1894, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Sardis, Harrison, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Eagle District, Harrison, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 1 December 1965, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Lumberport, Harrison, West Virginia, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
English: habitational name from any of various places, in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and Nottinghamshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh, fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
Irish: English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee 1 and Finnerty ).
Scottish: habitational name from Fenton in East Lothian.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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