Brief Life History of Katy Ella
When Katy Ella Grant was born on 9 October 1884, in Texas, United States, her father, Samuel Cobb Grant, was 29 and her mother, Kate Kuykendall, was 26. She died on 22 October 1918, in Matagorda, Texas, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Ashby Cemetery, Ashby, Matagorda, Texas, United States.
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Sources (3)
- Kattie Ella Nicholson, "Texas Deaths, 1890-1976"
- Kebie Ella Nicholson, "Texas Death Index, 1903-2000"
- Katy Ella Grant Nicholson, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
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.
Name Meaning
Irish, English, and especially Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname from Anglo-Norman French graund, graunt ‘tall, large’ (Old French grand, grant, from Latin grandis), given either to a person of remarkable size, or else in a relative way to distinguish two bearers of the same personal name, often representatives of different generations within the same family.
English: from the rare Middle English (and Old English) personal name Grante or Grente.
Irish: in Ireland this is usually the Norman Scottish name (see 1 above), but it was also adopted for Irish Mag Raighne, see Graney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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