Brief Life History of John
When John Boring Sr was born on 13 July 1869, in Warrington Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Boring, was 39 and his mother, Rozette Elizabeth Bell, was 31. He married Nora L Drawbaugh on 23 November 1890, in Newberry Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 21 July 1957, in Springettsbury Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Fairview Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- John Boring in household of William Boring, "United States Census, 1870"
- John im Eintrag für Aaron S. Manning und Elsie Merie Boring, „Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950“
- John Boring, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · First National Strike in U.S. Begins In Pittsburgh Against Pennsylvania Railroad
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
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
German: very rare variant, or an Americanized form, of Bohring or Böhring, patronymics from a short form of an Old Slavic personal name composed with the element bor ‘to fight’ (see Bora 1), or topographic names from Slavic bor ‘pine tree’.
Possibly an altered form of Irish Boran .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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