Brief Life History of Thomas Kerr
When Thomas Kerr Bailey was born on 5 May 1899, in Arbon, Power, Idaho, United States, his father, James Richard Hawkins Bailey, was 32 and his mother, Annie Leishman Kerr, was 25. He married Orva Charlotte Hall on 17 June 1925, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States in 1950. He died on 1 July 1977, in Moses Lake, Grant, Washington, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Pioneer Memorial Gardens, Moses Lake, Grant, Washington, United States.
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- Thomas K Bailey, Blank, "United States 1950 Census"
- Thomas Kerr Bailey, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
- Thomas Kerr Bailey, "Idaho, 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 · Frederick Weyerhaeuser's Logging Business
Weyerhaeuser Company started with 900,000 acres of timberland, with barely 3 employees and a small office in Tacoma, Washington. It has grown to become one of the largest sustainable forest products companies in the world.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
English: status name for a steward or official, from Middle English bailli ‘manager, administrator’ (Old French baillis, from Late Latin baiulivus, an adjectival derivative of baiulus ‘attendant, carrier, porter’).
English: habitational name from Bailey in Little Mitton, Lancashire, named with Old English beg ‘berry’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
English: occasionally a topographic name for someone who lived by the outer wall of a castle, from Middle English (Old French) bailli ‘outer courtyard of a castle’ (Old French bail(le) ‘enclosure’, a derivative of bailer ‘to enclose’). This term became a placename in its own right, denoting a district beside a fortification or wall, as in the case of the Old Bailey in London, which formed part of the early medieval outer wall of the city.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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