When William M Remington was born on 16 March 1888, in Stone, Missouri, United States, his father, John Stutsman Remington, was 30 and his mother, Nancy Jane Thompson, was 26. He married Margaret "Maggie" Arledge on 23 February 1912, in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He died on 6 July 1931, in Catoosa, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 43, and was buried in Denbo Cemetery, Catoosa, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States.
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The Oklahoma Land Run on April 22, 1889, was the first land rush, or land opened for settlement on a first-come basis, opened to the Unassigned Lands. The land rush lured approximately 50,000 people, saddled with their fastest horses, looking to claim their piece of the newly available two million acres. The requirements included the settler to live and improve on their 160 acres for five years in order to receive the title. Choice land tempted people to hide out and get an early lead on their claim. These people became known as “sooners.” It is estimated that eleven thousand homesteads were claimed. Oklahoma Historical Society - Land Run of 1889
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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English: habitational name from Rimington (Yorkshire), from Old English rima ‘rim, edge, boundary’ + the place- and river name forming suffix -ing (together meaning ‘boundary stream’, referring to Ings Brook) + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. Rimington is on the Lancashire border.
History: The American painter Frederic Remington (1861–1909) was descended from John Remington, living in MA in 1639; his father, Eliphalet Remington, was born in Suffield, CT, in 1793, and was a noted firearms manufacturer.
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