Brief Life History of Orson Pratt
When Orson Pratt Black was born on 15 October 1871, in Washington, Washington, Utah, United States, his father, William Morley Black, was 45 and his mother, Emma Jane Washburn, was 39. He married Clara Ann Theresa Mary Excell on 29 September 1894, in Saint Johns, Apache, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Kern, California, United States for about 10 years and Watsonville Judicial Township, Santa Cruz, California, United States in 1940. He died on 26 December 1946, in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Bakersfield, Kern, California, United States.
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- Orson Pratt Black, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Orson P Black, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
- Orson Pratt Black, "Find A Grave Index"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1875
Historical Boundaries: 1875: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1880: Emery, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Emery, Utah, United States
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.
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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