Brief Life History of Orris Clayton
When Orris Clayton Holloway was born on 30 January 1876, in Indiana, United States, his father, Amos Holloway, was 41 and his mother, Rachel H. Moon, was 42. He married Eva Lena Roush on 12 February 1901, in Grant, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Washington Township, Blackford, Indiana, United States in 1920 and Roll, Jay, Indiana, United States in 1940. He died on 29 October 1947, in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States.
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- Oris C Hollaway in household of Ama Hollaway, "United States Census, 1880"
- A C Holloway, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- Oris Clayton Holloway, "Find A Grave Index"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived ‘(by the) sunken road’, from Middle English hol(g)h ‘hollow’ + weie ‘way, road’ (Old English holh + weg), or else a habitational name from any of numerous places so named, such as Holloway (Middlesex) or Holway (Somerset). In Ireland (Leinster), the name has sometimes been Gaelicized as Ó hAilmhic (see Hulvey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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