Brief Life History of Otis Edgar
When Otis Edgar Milstead was born on 6 May 1879, in Alabama, United States, his father, Charles Almoth Milstead, was 27 and his mother, Martha Emmaline Crim, was 29. He married Vesta Mae Busby on 17 December 1899, in Shelby, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 3 Calera, Shelby, Alabama, United States in 1900. He died on 31 July 1931, in Calera, Shelby, Alabama, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Salem Cemetery, Calera, Shelby, Alabama, United States.
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- Odis E Milstedd, "United States Census, 1930"
- O E Milstead, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Otis Edgar Milstead, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
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 (Kent): habitational name from Milstead in Kent, derived from an uncertain initial element + Old English stede ‘place’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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