Robert Dailey Compton

Brief Life History of Robert Dailey

When Robert Dailey Compton was born on 11 March 1926, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States, his father, Elmer Compton, was 37 and his mother, Mary Evelyn Flaherty, was 26. He lived in Magisterial District 3, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1940.

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Family Time Line

Elmer Compton
1888–1954
Mary Evelyn Flaherty
1899–1969
Elmer Joseph Comtpon
1920–
Harold Lourdes Compton
1925–1992
Robert Dailey Compton
1926–
Ronald A Compton
1933–

Sources (2)

  • Robert D Compton, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Robert D Compton in household of Elmer Compton, "United States Census, 1930"

World Events (7)

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1936 · The Last Public Hanging in Kentucky

The hanging of Rainey Bethea on August 14,1936, in Owensboro, Kentucky was the last pubic hanging in the state and the United States. Anywhere from 15,000-20,000 people showed up for this event. The media was all over the hanging since the Sheriff of Davies county was a female, even though she did not pull levers. Because of the media coverage and the circus it caused, this was the last hanging.

1958 · The First U.S. Satellite in Space

Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England (but especially in the southwest) named Compton, from Old English cumb ‘short, straight valley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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