Brief Life History of Benjamin Stephen
When Benjamin Stephen Weeks was born on 5 December 1881, in Cullman, Cullman, Alabama, United States, his father, Rev Thomas Jackson Weeks, was 45 and his mother, Louisa Jane Sims, was 41. He married Della Augusta Chandler on 6 August 1903, in Cullman, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Good Hope, Cullman, Alabama, United States in 1910 and Cullman, Alabama, United States in 1920. He died on 5 September 1922, at the age of 40, and was buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Hanceville, Blount, Alabama, United States.
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- Ben S Weeks, "United States Census, 1910"
- Benjamin S Weeks, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Benjamin Stephen Weeks, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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: variant of Wicks .
Americanized form of Norwegian and Swedish Vik .
History: This surname was brought to North America independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One of the earliest on record is Leonard Weeks, who emigrated from Somerset, England, to Portsmouth, NH, some time before 1656. — William Weeks, recorded in Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, MA, from 1653 onward, was probably a cousin or other relative of the John Wickes mentioned at Wickes .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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