Brief Life History of Anna
When Anna Weiler was born on 5 March 1878, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Adam Weiler, was 58 and her mother, Helen D. Cross, was 38. She married George Cook Essick on 16 September 1896, in Wayne, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Burbank, Wayne, Ohio, United States in 1900. She died on 21 May 1917, in Congress, Wayne, Ohio, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Congress, Wayne, Ohio, United States.
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- Anna M Essick in household of George Essick, "United States Census, 1900"
- Anna Maude Essick, "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953"
- Anna Weiler in entry for Robert Edwin Essick, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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.
Name Meaning
German and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of several places so named in southern Germany.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Weil .
German: topographic name from Middle High German wīler ‘hamlet, farmstead, small village’. Compare Wyler .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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