When George Lewis Stevenson was born on 10 October 1898, in Hagerman, Gooding, Idaho, United States, his father, Edward Alonzo Stevenson, was 48 and his mother, Phobe Elizabeth Brackenbury, was 19. He married May Eliza Abercombie on 20 April 1922, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 28 November 1968, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Historical Boundaries: 1913: Gooding, Idaho, United States
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Steven, Stephen (see Steven ) + -son. This surname is also very common in northern Ireland (especially Antrim and Down), where it has been interchangeable with Steenson and Stinson . In North America, this surname has also absorbed various European cognates, such as Danish, Norwegian, and North German Steffensen or Stephensen ; see also Stevens .
Scottish: variant of Stevenston, a habitational name from Stevenston (Ayrshire), Stevenson in Newlands (Peeblesshire), or Stevenson in Haddington (East Lothian). The placename in each case derives from the personal name Steven + Older Scots toun ‘farmstead, settlement’.
English: habitational name from Stevenstone (Devon), meaning ‘Stephen's farmstead’.
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