Brief Life History of George W.
When George W. Courts was born about 1861, in Smethwick, Staffordshire, England, his father, John Court, was 44 and his mother, Elizabeth Smith, was 37. He married Ida Dakin on 25 November 1913, in Fergus, Fergus, Montana, United States. He lived in Gallatin Valley Church, Manhattan, Gallatin, Montana, United States in 1880 and Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States in 1920.
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Sources (8)
- George W Courts in household of Dudley Hoekstra, "United States Census, 1920"
- George W. Courts, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
- George Courts in entry for Mrs Ida Courts, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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World Events (8)
1862 · The Homestead Act
The Homestead Act of 1862 gave each citizen 160 acres of land. The qualified applicants were required to build a home and cultivate the land for five years.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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: variant of Court , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Americanized form of German Kurtz or its Dutch cognate Koerts.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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