When William Elsworth Ford was born on 18 August 1865, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States, his father, William S. Ford, was 34 and his mother, Martha Reed, was 33. He married Lenora Birchell on 18 August 1886, in Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Madison, Lake, South Dakota, United States in 1910 and Rock Island, Rock Island, Illinois, United States in 1930. He died on 17 October 1940, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Colton, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States.
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The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Historical Boundaries: 1873: Union, Dakota Territory, United States 1889: Union, South Dakota, United States [Spreads into Lincoln and Union counties]
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English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).
Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).
Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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