Brief Life History of Bryant
When Bryant Hawkins was born on 29 October 1878, in Greentown, Liberty Township, Howard, Indiana, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Hawkins, was 37 and his mother, Virginia Ann Allen, was 29. He married Leotha Della Holland on 9 October 1901, in New Castle, Henry, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Nashwauk, Itasca, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and Duluth, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States in 1930. He died on 2 April 1940, in Riverside Cemetery, Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 61.
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- Bryant Hawkins in household of Rufus Walton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Bryant Hawkins, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Bryant Hawkins, "Illinois, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.
Irish: variant of Haughn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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