When James William Terry was born on 31 December 1881, in Summit, Hardin, Kentucky, United States, his father, James William Washington Terry, was 32 and his mother, Mary Thomas Hart, was 22. He married Sarah Frances Floyd in 1907, in Hardin, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Canfield, Boulder, Colorado, United States in 1920 and Magisterial District 4 Parker, Grayson, Kentucky, United States in 1940. He died on 6 December 1947, in Big Clifty, Grayson, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Grayson, Kentucky, 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.
On Nov 7 1882, Denver was hit with a 6.6 magnitude earthquake. It was the largest earthquake to hit in the history of Colorado.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English and Irish: from the Norman personal name T(h)erry (Old French Thierri), a short form of Theodoric, which is composed of the ancient Germanic elements theud ‘people, race’ + rīc ‘power(ful), rich’. Theodoric was the name of the Ostrogothic leader (c. 454–526) who invaded Italy in 488 and established his capital at Ravenna in 493. His name was sometimes taken as a derivative of Greek Theodōros (see Theodore ). An Anglo-Norman family of this name has been in County Cork, Ireland, since the 13th century.
Irish: sometimes an Anglicized (‘translated’) form of Gaelic Mac Toirdhealbhaigh (see Turley ).
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