Brief Life History of Henry Allen
When Henry Allen Jordan was born on 10 January 1872, in Tennessee, United States, his father, Ananias Jordan, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Amanda Spears, was 41. He married Maud L Grubbs on 15 October 1908, in Davidson, Pickett, Tennessee, United States. He lived in District 4, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died in January 1964, in Dyer, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Dyersburg, Dyer, Tennessee, United States.
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- Henry Jordan in household of Aninias Jordan, "United States Census, 1880"
- Henry B Jordan, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
- Henry A Jordan, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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, German, French (mainly Alsace and Haute-Savoie), Polish, Czech, and Slovenian; Spanish and Hungarian (Jordán): from the Christian personal name or nickname Jordan. This is taken from the name of the river Jordan (Hebrew Yarden, a derivative of yarad ‘to go down’, i.e. to the Dead Sea). At the time of the Crusades it was a common practice for crusaders and pilgrims to bring back flasks of water from the river in which John the Baptist had baptized people, including Christ himself, and to use it in the christening of their own children. As a result Jordan became quite a common personal name.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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