Brief Life History of Mary Josephine
When Mary Josephine Black was born on 15 April 1886, in Jamaica, Guthrie, Iowa, United States, her father, Thomas Morton Black, was 44 and her mother, Nancy Ellen Adams, was 39. She married Arthur Wynn Davis on 25 June 1902, in Dallas, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Fairview, Power, Idaho, United States in 1920 and American Falls, Power, Idaho, United States for about 10 years. She died on 4 May 1987, in Idaho, United States, at the age of 101.
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- Josephine M Davis in household of Arthur W Davis, "United States Census, 1940"
- Mary Josephine Black, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
- Josphine Black, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1892
Historic Boundaries 1892: Logan, Idaho, United States 1895: Blaine, Idaho, United States
1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment
The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: chiefly from Middle English blak(e) ‘black’ (Old English blæc, blaca), a nickname given from the earliest times to a swarthy or dark-haired man. However, Middle English blac also meant ‘pale, wan’, a reflex of Old English blāc ‘pale, white’ with a shortened vowel. Compare Blatch and Blick . With rare exceptions it is impossible to disambiguate these antithetical senses in Middle English surnames. The same difficulty arises with Blake and Block .
Scottish: in Gaelic-speaking areas this name was adopted as a translation of the epithet dubh ‘dark, black-(haired)’, or of various other names based on Gaelic dubh ‘black’, see Duff .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames directly or indirectly derived from the adjective meaning ‘black, dark’, for example German and Jewish Schwarz and Slavic surnames beginning with Čern-, Chern- (see Chern and Cherne ), Chorn-, Crn- or Czern-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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