Brief Life History of George Clyde
When George Clyde Nelson was born on 9 November 1899, in San Jose, Graham, Arizona, United States, his father, William Louis Nelson, was 39 and his mother, Annie Bennett, was 29. He married Sola Mae Ferguson on 13 November 1926, in Central, Graham, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in United States in 1949 and Graham, Graham, Arizona, United States in 1950. He died on 28 August 1954, at the age of 54, and was buried in Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- George C Nelson, "United States 1950 Census"
- George Clyde Nelson, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
- George Clyde Nelson, "Arizona, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
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
English: patronymic from the personal name Nell or Nele, either of which might be a pet form of Elias or less commonly of Niel (from Latin Nigellus). See also Neal .
Americanized form of Swedish Nilsson and also of the Danish, Norwegian, and North German cognates Nielsen and Nilsen (compare Nelsen ). Compare also Neilson and Nielson .
History: The Nelson name was an important one in 18th-century VA, starting with Thomas ‘Scotch Tom’ Nelson, who emigrated to VA at the close of the 17th century from Penrith, Cumbria, where the Nelsons were numerous. Scotch Tom settled c. 1700 at Yorktown, VA, where he became a successful merchant and landholder. His son was sheriff and a member of the VA Council, and his grandson, Thomas Nelson (1738–89), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was governor of VA.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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