Brief Life History of John Joseph
When John Joseph Walsh was born on 11 February 1891, in Louisiana, United States, his father, John Thomas Walsh, was 21 and his mother, Lillian Ethel Wright, was 16. He married Elizabeth W Munster on 12 August 1920, in Orleans, Louisiana, United States. He lived in Galveston, Galveston, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 9 March 1961, in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
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- John J Walsh, "United States Census, 1940"
- John Walsh, "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957"
- John Walshe, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
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.
1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Aileen, Dermot, John Patrick, Kieran, Declan, Eamonn, Colm, Donal, Seamus, Siobhan, Brennan.
English and Irish: ethnic name from Middle English walshe (Old English wælisc) ‘foreign, Welsh’. This form of the name was generally more common than Welsh , especially in Ireland, where it originally denoted a Welsh-speaking immigrant, in particular any of the Welshmen who arrived in the wake of Strongbow's Anglo-Norman invasion of 1170. In Ireland it is sometimes also a translation of Breathnach ‘Briton’.
English: in Yorkshire and Lancashire the name is sometimes a shortened form of Walshaw .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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