When Samuel Alfred Bryant was born on 18 December 1882, in Knox, Waldo, Maine, United States, his father, George Edward Bryant, was 25 and his mother, Sarah B. Hall, was 23. He married Anna Maude Lamson on 31 December 1907, in Waterville, Kennebec, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States in 1920. He died on 7 December 1950, in Freedom, Waldo, Maine, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Freedom, Waldo, Maine, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
During the Cuban War for Independence, the USS Maine had been sent to Havana to look out for the interests of the United States. On February 15, 1898, at approximately 21:40, an explosion on USS Maine was caused by roughly 5 long tons of powder. The front of the ship was demolished and the remains quickly sunk to the bottom of the ocean. 260 men lost their lives in the explosion itself, with at least six more dying afterwards from related injuries. The event kicked off an atmosphere of contention that would eventually lead to the Spanish-American War.
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English (of Norman origin): from the Celtic personal name Brian (from brigo- ‘high’ + the suffix -ant-), with excrescent -t. Breton bearers of this name were among the Normans who invaded England in 1066. They went on to settle in Ireland in the 12th century, where the name mingled with the native Irish form Briain (see O'Brien ). The latter had also been borrowed, as Brján, by the Vikings, who introduced it independently into northwestern England before the Norman Conquest.
Breton: very rare variant of Briant (see Briand ) and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
History: The American poet William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) came of a New England family, being descended from Stephen Bryant, who had settled in Plymouth Colony in 1632.
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