Brief Life History of Leo
When Leo York was born on 26 August 1895, in Maine, United States, his father, Charles N York, was 37 and his mother, Ida A Burnham, was 36. He married Pearle A Ware on 18 March 1922, in Maine, United States. He lived in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States in 1935 and Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1950. He died in October 1980, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 85.
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- Leo York, "United States Census, 1950"
- Leo York, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
- Leo York, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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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.
1896
Consolidated April 1, 1896
1918 · Attempting to Stop the War
To end World War I, President Wilson created a list of principles to be used as negotiations for peace among the nations. Known as The Fourteen Points, the principles were outlined in a speech on war aimed toward the idea of peace but most of the Allied forces were skeptical of this Wilsonian idealism.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from the city of York in northern England. The surname is now widespread throughout England. Originally, the city bore the Latin name Eburacum, which is probably from a Brittonic name meaning ‘yew-tree place’. This was altered by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc (from the elements eofor ‘wild boar’ + wīc ‘specialized farmstead’). This name was taken over by Scandinavian settlers, who altered it back to opacity in the form Jórvík or Jórk (English York, which became finally settled as the placename in the 13th century). The surname has also been adopted by Jews as an Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
In some cases also an American shortened and altered form of the East Slavic patronymic Yurkovich or its Croatian, Slovak, or Slovenian variants. Compare Yurk .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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