Brief Life History of Joseph D.
When Joseph D. Davis was born on 26 July 1856, in Sullivan, Indiana, United States, his father, Riley Jackson Davis, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Ann Valentine, was 25. He married Ursula Rash on 5 March 1876, in Union Township, Hardin, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Providence Township, Hardin, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Blue River Township, Henry, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He was buried in Union, Hardin, Iowa, United States.
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- Joseph D. Davis, "United States Census, 1880"
- Joseph D. Davis, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Joseph Davis, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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1860
Historical Boundaries: 1860: Hardin, Iowa, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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