Brief Life History of Otto Heward
When Otto Heward Stocks was born on 10 January 1891, in Lewiston, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Moroni Heward Stocks, was 25 and his mother, Mary Florence Bright, was 23. He married Martha Bauerle on 19 December 1918, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Papeete, Windward Islands, French Polynesia in 1913. He registered for military service in 1918. In 1940, at the age of 49, his occupation is listed as longshoreman. He died on 14 February 1969, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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- Otto H Stocks, "United States 1950 Census"
- Oregon, Marriage Indexes, 1906-1924, 1946-2008
- Otto H Stocks, "Utah, World War I Army Servicemen Records Abstracts, 1914-1918"
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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.
1896 · The Logan Temple Barn
The Logan Temple Barn was built on the edge of the Logan temple property to house the animals belonging to the builders of the temple. It was one of only two stone barns built in Cache Valley. These barns became obsolete during the rise of the automobile era. The building and the land it was on was sold in 1919 and became an automobile repair shop. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1985, and is still standing today.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Name Meaning
German: variant of Stock .
English (Yorkshire): variant of Stock with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. In the plural form, the surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived near tree stumps, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Stocks in Thurstonland (Yorkshire). It may also denote someone who lived by, or operated, the obsolete instrument of punishment known as the stocks (Middle English stokkes) owing to its construction from two wooden planks set edgewise one over the other.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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