Brief Life History of Benjamin Bailey
When Benjamin Bailey Liipfert Sr. was born on 7 January 1898, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, his father, William Joseph Liipfert, was 37 and his mother, Bettie P Bailey, was 26. He married Mary Louise Thomas on 25 April 1934, in Hickory, Catawba, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in United States in 1949 and Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1967. He died on 8 July 1966, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States.
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- Bailey Luppfert in household of William Luppfert, "United States Census, 1910"
- B B Lüpfert, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Benjamin Bailey Liipfert, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Biblical name, borne by the youngest of the twelve sons of Jacob. His mother Rachel died in giving birth to him, and in her last moments she named him Benoni, meaning ‘son of my sorrow’. His father, however, did not wish him to bear such an ill-omened name, and renamed him Benyamin (Genesis 35:16–18; 42:4). This means either ‘son of the right hand’ or more likely ‘son of the south’ (Hebrew yamin can also mean ‘south’), since Benjamin was the only child of Jacob born in Canaan and not in Mesopotamia to the north. Another tradition is that the second element of the name is a variant of the Hebrew plural noun yamim, which means ‘days’ but is used idiomatically to mean ‘year’ or ‘years’. The name would then mean ‘son of (my) old age’ and refer to the fact that Benjamin was Jacob's youngest child. In the Middle Ages the name was often given to sons whose mothers had died in childbirth. Today it has no such unfortunate associations and it grew enormously in popularity following the release of the film The Graduate ( 1967 ), in which Dustin Hoffman played the role of Benjamin Braddock . It is used in Scotland as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Beathan .
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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