Brief Life History of Benjamin Whaymire
When Benjamin Whaymire Knox was born on 6 June 1896, in San Francisco, California, United States, his father, Whaymire, was 17 and his mother, Agnes Mc Alpin, was 17. He lived in Denver, Colorado, United States in 1918 and Election District T, Denver, Colorado, United States in 1940. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 13 December 1985, in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Orem, Utah, Utah, United States.
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Sources (10)
- Benjamin W Knox, "United States Census, 1940"
- Benjamin Whaymire Knox, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- Benjamin W Knox, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1897 · Beginnings of Kmart
Detroit was the home of the second dime and nickel stores that S. S. Kresge owned. After two years with John McCrory, his partner, he traded his share in the Memphis store, plus $3,000, for full ownership of the Detroit store and formed the Kresge & Wilson Company with his brother-in-law, Charles J. Wilson. In 1962, the S. S. Kresge Company would rebrand and change their name to Kmart.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1920
The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English (Northumberland and Durham): from a genitive or plural form of Old English cnocc ‘round-topped hill’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived on a hilltop, or a habitational name from any of the places in Scotland and northern England named with this element, now spelled Knock, in particular one in Renfrewshire.
Scottish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland named with Gaelic cnoc ‘hill’, for example Knock in Renfrewshire. It is not possibly to disentangle this from the surname derived from the English etymon mentioned in 1 above.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) surnames.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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