Brief Life History of Olander Jackson
When Olander Jackson Holder was born on 9 July 1885, in McCormick, McCormick, South Carolina, United States, his father, Daniel Thomas Holder Sr, was 43 and his mother, Elizabeth Ella Jane Coleman, was 38. He had at least 2 sons with Frances May Ferqueron. He lived in Greenwood, Greenwood, South Carolina, United States in 1940 and South Carolina, United States in 1961. He died on 9 November 1961, in McCormick, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Plum Branch Cemetery, Plum Branch, McCormick, South Carolina, United States.
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- O J Holder, "United States Census, 1940"
- Olander Jackson Holder, "South Carolina, Delayed Birth Certificates, 1766-1900"
- Olander Jackson Holder, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1893 · The Last Public Hanging in Georgia
The last public hanging in Georgia was on September 28, 1893. The General Assembly prohibited public executions in December 1893. Prior to this law, Georgians commonly traveled to witness scheduled public executions.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
German: topographic name for someone who lived by an elder tree, Middle High German holder, or a topographic or habitational name referring to a house named for its sign of an elder tree. In same areas, for example Alsace, the elder tree was believed to be protective of a house.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Holder ‘elder tree’.
English: status or occupational name from Middle English holdere, haldere, heldere ‘tenant; servant, retainer; laborer’, an agent derivative of holden ‘to hold’ (Old English healdan). Compare Helder 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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