Brief Life History of May M.
When May M. King was born on 14 April 1885, in Missouri, United States, her father, Robert Newton King, was 25 and her mother, Nancy Catherine Smith, was 17. She married George Marion Hamilton on 18 September 1904, in Memphis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Thomson Township, Scotland, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1920. She died on 23 September 1961, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 76.
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- May M Hamilton in household of George M Hamilton, "United States Census, 1920"
- May King in entry for Robert W Hamilton and Dorothy B Kirkendall, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- May N Hamilton in household of George M Hamilton, "United States Census, 1910"
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1886
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1898 · Oregon Historical Society
The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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