Norman Leslie Tilson was born on 28 November 1896, in Andrew, Missouri, United States. He married Mary Ellen "Ella" Greene on 20 May 1914, in Falls City, Richardson, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Buchanan, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Saint Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 12 February 1979, in Independence, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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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.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
English (mainly northern Midlands and Yorkshire): metronymic from the Middle English female personal name Till (a pet form of Matilda) + -son, i.e. ‘son of Till’. Compare Tillotson .
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