Brief Life History of Amos H
When Amos H Collier was born on 29 April 1883, in Booneville, Prentiss, Mississippi, United States, his father, Amos Jefferson Collier, was 33 and his mother, Rhyanza Josephine Johnson, was 34. He married Iva Lillian Miller on 8 July 1903. He died on 12 July 1909, at the age of 26, and was buried in Hill, Winn, Louisiana, United States.
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- Amos Hickman Collier, "Find A Grave Index"
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1886
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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.
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: from Middle English colier, in most parts of the country ‘maker or seller of charcoal’, but in some areas (such as Bolton le Moors and Wigan, Lancashire) where coal measures were near the surface, ‘miner or seller of coal’ (in the modern sense, ‘fossil fuel’). The name was taken to Ireland from England and was first recorded there in 1305. In Petty's ‘census’ of 1659, it was recorded as a principal surname in Meath.
English: occupational name from Middle English coilour, coliour, culliour, Old French coileor, coillour ‘tax collector’. Surnames with this origin seem to have died out in Britain.
French (northern): from collier ‘collar’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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