Brief Life History of Joseph Henderson
When Joseph Henderson Black was born on 23 May 1912, in Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Alonzo Black, was 38 and his mother, Minnie Ellen Brannan, was 36. He married Ruth Christensen on 20 January 1940, in Cowley, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States. He lived in Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States for about 1 years and Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 2007. He died on 12 May 2007, in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Cody, Park, Wyoming, United States.
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- Joseph H. Black, "United States 1950 Census"
- Joseph Henderson Black, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Joseph Henderson Black, "District of Columbia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
1913 · Women's Suffrage Demonstration
A demonstration for women's suffrage takes place on March 3, 1913. This is the first suffrage parade in Washington D.C. One of the notable women in attendance is Ida B. Wells.
1937 · The Neutrality Act
The Neutrality Acts were passed in response to the growing conflicts in Europe and Asia during the time leading up to World War II. The primary purpose was so the US wouldn't engage in any more foreign conflicts. Most of the Acts were repealed in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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