When Janet Mary Wilson was born on 12 February 1881, in Sweet Home, Lavaca, Texas, United States, her father, Elijah Thomas Wilson, was 42 and her mother, Susana Rutha Smith, was 40. She married Charlie Henry Hardnock on 12 September 1903, in Arapaho, Custer, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Greenwood, Cass, Nebraska, United States in 1910 and Tipton Election Precinct, Cass, Nebraska, United States for about 10 years. She died on 12 October 1965, in Omaha, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Alvo, Cass, Nebraska, 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.
The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
English: from the Middle English personal name Will + patronymic -son ‘son of Will’. Will was a very common medieval short form of William . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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