Brief Life History of Lewis Clinton
When Lewis Clinton Bean was born on 14 November 1894, in Clinton, Iowa, United States, his father, Peter Anthony Bean, was 24 and his mother, Minnie Kademann, was 20. He married Marian Catherine Thompson on 3 November 1926, in Clinton, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Clinton, Clinton, Iowa, United States for about 30 years. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 25 May 1981, in Clinton, Iowa, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Clinton, Clinton, Iowa, United States.
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- Louis C Bean, "United States Census, 1940"
- Bean, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Lewis C. Bean, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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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.
1913 · The Completion of the Keokuk Dam
The Keokuk Dam was completed in 1913 and began to power the surrounding area. It was the largest single capacity powerhouse in the world at the time. After World War II, the powerhouse was modernized and all the units were converted in 2002. It remains the largest privately owned and operated dam on the Mississippi River.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a pleasant person, from Middle English bēne ‘friendly, amiable’.
English: metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of beans, from Middle English bene ‘bean’ (Old English bēan ‘beans’, a collective singular). The broad bean, Vicia faba, was a staple food in Europe in the Middle Ages. The green bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, came from South America and was not introduced to Europe until the late 16th century. The word bene was commonly used to denote something of little worth, and occasionally it may have been applied as a nickname for someone considered insignificant.
English: possibly a habitational or topographic name. Redmonds, Dictionary of Yorkshire Surnames, cites Adam del Bene of Harrogate (1351) as evidence to suggest that in the Harrogate area, where the Yorkshire name later proliferated, it may have been derived from a place where beans grew.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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