Brief Life History of Charlie Oscar
When Charlie Oscar Stevens was born on 1 November 1893, in Tennessee, United States, his father, George Bascom Stevens, was 27 and his mother, Estelee Tucker, was 24. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 1 July 1984, in Dallas, Texas, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States.
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- Charles O Stevens in household of George B Stevens, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Charlie Oscar Stevens - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Charlie Oscar Stevens
- Charles Oscar Stevens, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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World Events (8)
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
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.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English (London), Flemish, Dutch, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Steven . The surname of Flemish origin is also found in the Walloon part of Belgium. In North America, the English form of the surname has also absorbed some like-sounding Jewish names and various other European cognates, e.g. Greek Stefanidis , Serbian Stevanović (see Stevanovic ), Slovenian and Slovak Štefanič (see Stefanic ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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