Brief Life History of Charles Edson
Charles Edson Ellis was born in Hayes county, Nebraska, February 28, 1887. His mother died in about the year 1900, after which he moved with his father to Idaho where they lived about eight or nine years. Mr. Ellis returned to Nebraska in 1909 and in 1910 he was married to Miss Sarah Andrews of this city. He died December 27, 1919. Survived by his wife, three children, his father who lives in Oregon, and one sister, Mrs J. W. Dorrance of Omaha. The funeral service conducted by Rev. R. De Wolf of the Methodist church was held from the chapel of Messrs Metz and Hitchcock. burial was made in Greenwood cemetery this afternoon York News Times, Dec. 29, 1919
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- Charles E Ellis in household of August Harms, "United States Census, 1910"
- Charles E. Ellis, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Charles Edson Ellis, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1890
Idaho is the 43rd state.
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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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