Brief Life History of Howard Vincent
When Howard Vincent Hardy was born on 12 June 1894, in Farmwell, Loudoun, Virginia, United States, his father, Henson C Hardy, was 25 and his mother, Mollie M. Mathers, was 22. He lived in Washington, Virginia, United States in 1910 and Bladensburg, Prince George's, Maryland, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 28 January 1966, in Arlington, Virginia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Arlington, Virginia, United States.
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- Howard V Hardy, "United States 1950 Census"
- Howard V Hardy, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Howard V Hardy, "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.
1897 · Seattle Grows Quickly
The Klondike gold rush started in 1896 in Canada, but by 1897 as miners started moving and following the gold it caused for Seattle to rapidly grow as more miners joined the search for gold.
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English, French, and Walloon: nickname for a brave or foolhardy man, from Old French, Middle English hardi ‘bold, courageous’. The surname of Walloon origin is also found in the Flemish part of Belgium (mainly in Belgian Limburg). Compare Hard 2.
Irish: in addition to being an importation of the English name, this is also found as an Anglicized form (by partial translation) of Gaelic Mac Giolla Deacair ‘son of the hard lad’.
Americanized form of Swiss German Härdi: from a pet form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with hard ‘brave, strong’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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