Willie Throckmorton (1903 - 1985)

Willie's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Throckmorton family tree.

Willie's Family

Add a parent

Add a parent

Willie Throckmorton Add a partner Add a child Add a partner Add a child

Add a sibling

We currently do not have photos of Willie Throckmorton. Below are potential family photos that share Willie's last name or surname. Pictures really do say a thousand words. Add photos of Willie during various points of his life

Thomas C. Kennedy w/wife Mary Throckmorton

Add photo

What do you remember about Willie Throckmorton? Share your memories of special moments and stories you have heard about him. Or just leave a comment to show the world that Willie is remembered.

Post

Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Willie's lifetime

In 1903, in the year that Willie Throckmorton was born, the Harley-Davidson Motor Company was begun by two childhood friends, William Harley and Arthur Davidson - with help from Arthur's brother, Walter. Their first prototype - a "motor-bicycle" - couldn't climb hills without also pedaling, so they went back to the drawing board, and in 1904 their new version came in 4th in a race. Harley-Davidson and Indian Motorcycle Manufacturing Company were the only two major motorcycle companies to survive the Great Depression.

In 1911, at the age of only 8 years old, Willie was alive when the United States Supreme Court broke up Standard Oil in May. John D. Rockefeller established Standard Oil in 1870 and it was the largest oil refinery at the time. The Supreme Court found that Standard Oil of New Jersey (one of the many iterations of Standard Oil) was guilty of "monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions". The Court broke up the several entities that comprised Standard Oil and they eventually became competing firms.

In 1942, by the time he was 39 years old, on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.

In 1959, he was 56 years old when on August 8th, Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States. The US flag was changed to show 50 stars.

In 1985, in the year of Willie Throckmorton's passing, in May, a paper published in Nature by three British scientists reported that a huge hole was discovered in the ozone layer over the Antarctic. It was much larger than expected and is due to the use of manmade chemicals.