Brief Life History of Harry Gordon
When Harry Gordon Payne was born on 13 November 1918, in West Virginia, United States, his father, Orlando Rucker Payne, was 26 and his mother, Cora Columbia Arthur, was 28. He lived in Fort Lick District, Webster, West Virginia, United States in 1940. He died on 2 March 1957, in Webster Springs, Webster, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 38.
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- Harry G Payne, "United States 1950 Census"
- Harry G. Payne, "Find A Grave Index"
- Harry Payne in household of Lando Payne, "United States Census, 1940"
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1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English and Old French personal name Pai(e)n, Pagen (from Latin Paganus), a fairly common personal name among Normans. It derived from a word that originally meant ‘villager, rustic’, later ‘heathen’, but it had doubtless lost these connotations in its use as a late medieval personal name. This name has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.
History: Thomas Payne, who was a freeman of Plymouth Colony in 1639, was the founder of a large American family, which included Robert Treat Paine (1731–1814), one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. See also Paine .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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