When Lewis L. Fernald was born on 23 March 1885, in Prairie City, Grant, Oregon, United States, his father, Walter Fernald, was 42 and his mother, Anna Elizabeth Richardson, was 27. He married Pearl Marion Eccles in 1918, in Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States for about 30 years. He died on 4 June 1930, in Prairie City, Grant, Oregon, United States, at the age of 45, and was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Baker City, Baker, Oregon, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Altered form of French Fernel, itself a shortened form of a derivative of Old French ferron ‘blacksmith, ironmonger’.
History: This surname was brought to North America from England. It is listed along with its original form Fernel in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
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