Brief Life History of Joseph Colloth
When Joseph Colloth Spivey was born on 13 August 1881, in Texas, United States, his father, Jeremiah M. "Jerry" Spivey, was 36 and his mother, Sarah Frances Driver, was 36. He had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Georgia Lee Malear. He lived in Justice Precinct 4, Falls, Texas, United States for about 10 years and Justice Precinct 5, Bell, Texas, United States in 1940. He died on 24 April 1963, in Temple, Bell, Texas, United States, at the age of 81.
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- Joseph C Spivey, "United States Census, 1940"
- Joe Spivey, "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935"
- Joseph Colloth Spivey, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1894 · Texas Files Lawsuit Against Standard Oil Company
Under the direction of Governor Jim Hogg, Texas filed a lawsuit against John D. Rockefeller for violating state monopoly laws. Hogg argued that Standard Oil Company and Water-Piece Oil Company of Missouri were engaged in illegal practices like price fixing, rebates, and consolidation. Rockefeller was indicted, but never tried in a court of law; other employees of his company were convicted as guilty.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire): from the Middle English personal name Spivi, of unexplained etymology. There is a slight possibility that it could be a pet form of ancient Germanic Spirwig, attested in the patronymic of a Norman tenant, Eudo filius Spireuuic, 1086 in Domesday Book (Lincolnshire). The alteration of Spivey to Spib(e)y, as if it were from a placename, seems to occurs from the 15th century, but the letters -v- and -b- are often difficult to distinguish at this time and during the following century, so the phonetic change may have occurred later.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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