When Alfred Benton was born on 11 February 1881, in Payne, Paulding, Ohio, United States, his father, Alfred Benton, was 37 and his mother, Cornelia Phillips, was 34. He married Laura Etta Messerschmidt on 24 December 1906, in Pierre, Hughes, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Township 7 Range 6, Fall River, South Dakota, United States in 1940 and Yakima, Yakima, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 29 November 1961, in Edgemont, Fall River, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Edgemont Cemetery, Edgemont, Fall River, South Dakota, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Historical Boundaries: 1883: Fall River, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Fall River, South Dakota, United States
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
habitational name from any of numerous places so called, especially Benton Green in Berkswell, Warwickshire, Bentons in Suffolk, and Little Benton and Longbenton in Northumberland. The places are named with Old English bēan ‘beans’ (a collective singular) or beonet ‘bent grass’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.
in Yorkshire and possibly also Staffordshire, a variant of Bentham .
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