When Mariah Jane Courtney was born in February 1898, in West Virginia, United States, her father, Daniel B Courtney, was 43 and her mother, Margaret Ellen Russell, was 41. She married Audra Earl Mick on 3 June 1916. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Buckhannon, Upshur, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years and Buckhannon District, Upshur, West Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 7 February 1953, at the age of 55.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
English and Irish (of Norman origin): habitational name from Courtenay near Sens in northern France, or some other place similarly named, from the name of a Gallo-Roman landlord, Curtenus (a derivative of Latin curtus ‘short’) + the locative suffix -acum.
Irish: English surname adopted for Ó Curnáin ‘descendant of Curnán’, an Old Irish personal name based on a diminutive of corn ‘horn’.
History: A family of this name (see 1 above) can be traced back to Athon de Courtenay, who lived in Courtenay in Loiret in the early 11th century. Renaud de Courtenay held land in Devon in the 12th century, and the family later held the title of Earls of Devon following the marriage of Hugh de Courtenay to Margaret de Bohun, granddaughter of King Edward I, in 1325.
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