When Oliver Edward Bacon was born on 22 June 1881, in Tuscumbia, Miller, Missouri, United States, his father, George Wesley Bacon, was 27 and his mother, Mary Jane Paralee Stephens, was 28. He married Jessie Miller on 7 November 1915, in Miller, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Olean, Miller, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Saline Township, Miller, Missouri, United States for about 30 years. He died on 21 October 1944, in Saint Marys Hospital, Jefferson Township, Cole, Missouri, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Eldon, Miller, Missouri, United States.
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A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the Norman French personal name Bacun, derived from the ancient Germanic name Bac(c)o, Bahho, based on the element bag ‘(to) fight, (to) dispute’. The name was relatively common among the Normans in the form Bacus, of which the oblique case was Bacon.
English and French: from Middle English, Old French bacun, bacon ‘bacon’ (a word of ancient Germanic origin, akin to Back 3), probably a metonymic occupational name for a preparer and seller of cured pork.
History: Gilles Bacon from Normandy, France, is documented in Quebec City, QC, in 1647. — Michael Bacon from England arrived in Dedham, MA, in 1640. Nathanial Bacon, from Stratton, Cornwall, arrived in Barnstaple, MA, in 1639. Another Nathaniel Bacon (1647–76), from Friston Hall, Suffolk, emigrated to VA and settled at Curl's Neck on the James river.
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