Brief Life History of Francis Dwight
When Francis Dwight Conover was born on 3 March 1900, in Honey Grove, Fannin, Texas, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Conover, was 47 and his mother, Mary Jane Arnold, was 37. He married Maud Hazel White on 31 October 1920. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Morton, Kansas, United States in 1935 and Florence, Fremont, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 30 January 1988, in Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Citrus Heights, Sacramento, California, United States.
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- Finis D Conover, "United States Census, 1930"
- Francis Dwight Conover, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
- Francis D Conover, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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World Events (8)
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
1901 · Poll Tax Law is Passed
The state legislature passed a new law in 1901 that added the payment of a poll tax as a requirement for voting. It was a deliberate political move that drastically reduced voting participation by African Americans, Mexican Americans, and poor whites. More than a third of the (otherwise eligible) voting population was now disenfranchised from the election process.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
Americanized form of Dutch Couwenhoven, a habitational name from the farmhouse Couwenhoven in Hoogland, Utrecht.
History: Wolfert Gerritsz. (van Couwenhoven), settled in 1624–25 as one of the first immigrants from Amersfoort to New-Netherland. By the time the descendants of original Dutch settlers on Long Island had reached western PA, the name Couwenhoven had evolved into Conover.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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