Brief Life History of Joseph Belknap
When Joseph Belknap Porter was born on 11 November 1899, in Wilkes, Georgia, United States, his father, Arthur George Porter, was 29 and his mother, Sophia Rogers Smith, was 22. He lived in Thomson, McDuffie, Georgia, United States in 1920 and District 134, McDuffie, Georgia, United States in 1940. He died on 26 January 1946, at the age of 46, and was buried in Thomson, McDuffie, Georgia, United States.
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- Beltnap Parter in household of Auther Parter, "United States Census, 1920"
- Joseph Belknap Porter, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Joseph B Porter, "Georgia Death Index, 1933-1998"
World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · The Atlanta Race Riot
The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 occurred on the evening of September 22 through September 24. A newspaper reported the rapes of four white women by African American men. Fueled by pre-existing racial tensions, these reports enraged white men who then arranged gangs to attack African American men. Over the next few days, several thousand white men joined in and in the end, 26 people were killed and many were injured.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English and Older Scots porter(e), port(o)ur ‘doorkeeper, gatekeeper’ (Anglo-Norman French port(i)er, portur, Latin portarius). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. The name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century. In North America, this surname has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner ) and Poertner .
English: occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Middle English port(o)ur, porter ‘porter, carrier of burdens’ (Anglo-Norman French portur, porteo(u)r).
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Poorter, status name for a freeman (burgher) of a town, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter. Compare De Porter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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