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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Idaho is the 43rd state.
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.
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.
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.
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