Brief Life History of Stanley
When Stanley Knight was born on 29 September 1886, in Mississippi, United States, his father, Daniel Champenois Knight, was 29 and his mother, Bernetta Victoria Windham, was 24. He married Emma Lou Herrington on 13 May 1914, in Mount Olive, Covington, Mississippi, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Beat 5, Covington, Mississippi, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He died on 13 September 1959, in Covington, Mississippi, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Knight Cemetery, Collins, Covington, Mississippi, United States.
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- Stanley Knight, "United States 1950 Census"
- Stanley Knight, "Mississippi, County Marriages, 1858-1979"
- Stanley Knight, "Find A Grave Index"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
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: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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