Brief Life History of Arthur Paul
When Arthur Paul Anderson was born on 28 June 1895, in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Charles A. Anderson, was 36 and his mother, Emma Standar, was 29. He lived in West Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States for about 15 years. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 24 October 1972, in Kent, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in West Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, United States.
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- Arthur P Anderson, "Rhode Island State Census, 1935"
- Arthur Paul Anderson, "Rhode Island Town Births Index, 1639-1932"
- Arthur P Anderson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1907 · Larchmont sinks
On February 11, 1907, a passenger ship gets rammed by a coal carrier just southwest of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. It takes only 10 minutes for the Larchmont to sink. Only 19 of those on board survive. The next day bodies of those that had been on the ship continue to wash up onto the shore.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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