Brief Life History of Ronald
Ronald Oliphant was born on 4 October 1884, in London, England as the son of Henry R Oliphant and Annie Allerdyce. He married Charlotte or Lottie Winkert on 7 September 1929, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Richmond, Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States in 1940. He died on 20 June 1968, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cypress, Orange, California, United States.
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- Ronald Oliphant, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ronald Francis Oliphant, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Ronald Oliphant, "United States Social Security Death Index"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1889
Historical Boundaries: 1889: Orange, California, United States
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English (London) and Scottish (Fife): from Old French olifard or olifant, of uncertain meaning. It has been suggested that this might be a derivative of Old French olif ‘olive’ + the pejorative suffix -ard ‘derisive nickname for one who preferred an olive branch to more martial weapons’; it may have denoted a man twisted like an olive-tree. The variant Olifant may have resulted from the substitution in Old Norman French of the sequence l-r by l-n, leading to a false association with Old French olifant ‘elephant’. This heraldic beast appears in the Scottish family's coats of arms. Branches of the Anglo-Norman family owned lands in both England and Scotland. The surname is now chiefly Scottish.
English: possibly a topographic name from residence at an inn known as the Olyphaunt or ‘elephant’, though whether this gave rise to a hereditary surname is unknown.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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