Napoleon Pemberton

Brief Life History of Napoleon

When Napoleon Pemberton was born in April 1899, in Virginia, United States, his father, William Scott Pemberton, was 48 and his mother, Alice Green Clayton, was 31. He lived in Manchester, Chesterfield, Virginia, United States in 1900. He died before 1910, in Chesterfield, Virginia, United States.

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William Scott Pemberton
1850–1931
Alice Green Clayton
1867–1932
William John “Willie” Pemberton
1885–1958
Joseph Bailey Pemberton
1886–1963
Robert Edward Lee Pemberton
1887–1976
Dewitt London Pemberton
1890–1965
Lucy Jane Pemberton
1892–1920
Alice Clara Pemberton
1893–1970
Albert Asbury Pemberton
1895–1928
James Brown "Jimmy" Pemberton
1898–1984
Napoleon Pemberton
1899–1910
Elizabeth Betty Pemberton
1902–1977
Eva Green Pemberton
1904–2001
Beverly Hancock Pemberton
1905–1999

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  • Napoleon Pemberton in household of William S Pemberton, "United States Census, 1900"

World Events (7)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1901 · Maggie Lena Walker Opens Bank

Maggie Lena Walker was the first African American and woman to open a bank. She opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank on August 20, 1901. She encouraged the young people to start saving their pennies in her bank and when they hit a hundred pennies they could start a bank account with the bank.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from a place in Greater Manchestercalled Pemberton, from Celtic penn ‘hill, head’ + Old Englishbere ‘barley’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.

History: There seem to have been several families called de Pemberton in theWigan area of Manchester, England, as early as the beginning of the 13th century, notably thatof Adam de Pemberton, a substantial landowner Three Quaker brothers named Pemberton were born in Philadelphia: Israel (born 1715), James (born 1723), and John (born 1727); Israel and James became wealthy merchants and philanthropists.

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

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