Brief Life History of John Henry Cidon
When John Henry Cidon King was born on 4 May 1881, in West Plains, Ripley, Missouri, United States, his father, James Lewis King, was 23 and his mother, Mary Virginia Proffitt, was 22. He married Mary Cornelia Walser on 24 December 1899, in Jones, Van Zandt, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Pharr, Hidalgo, Texas, United States in 1930 and Redlands Judicial Township, San Bernardino, California, United States for about 5 years. He died on 14 June 1967, in Yucaipa, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Funston, Jones, Texas, United States.
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- John C King, "United States Census, 1940"
- John Cidon King, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
- John C King, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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