Brief Life History of Jerome F.
When Jerome F. Ellis was born on 8 November 1871, in Nashville, Washington, Illinois, United States, his father, Americus John Ellis, was 33 and his mother, Martha Emma Walker, was 28. He married Edith Genevieve Metcalf on 5 June 1899, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Union, Oregon, United States in 1900. He died on 19 September 1907, in Saint Johns, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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- Jerome ? Ellis, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Jerome Ellis - Government record: birth-name: Jerome Ellis
- Jerome I Ellis, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
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.
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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