Brief Life History of Francis B.
When Francis B. Wisdom was born about 1846, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, Edward Godfrey Wisdom, was 30 and his mother, Jane Rebecca Bayer, was 26. He had at least 3 sons with Mary L Schefield. He lived in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1910 and Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1917.
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- Frances B Wisdom, "United States Census, 1920"
- Francis B. Wisdom in entry for Wisdom, "Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949"
- F. Wisdom, "United States Census, 1880"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850 · History of Englewood
Community Area 68, 7 miles S of the Loop. Before 1850, Englewood was an oak forest with much swampland. In 1852 several railroad lines crossed at what became known as Junction Grove, stimulating the beginning of what we know today as Englewood. The earliest settlers to Englewood were German and Irish workers. They worked initially on truck farms, the railroads, and later at the Union Stock Yard. By 1865 Junction Grove was annexed to the Town of Lake and then Chicago in 1889. In 1868 Henry B. Lewis, a wool merchant in the Loop and Board of Education member, suggested a new name, Englewood, deriving from his association with Englewood, New Jersey. Also in 1868, developer L. W. Beck gave 10 acres to Englewood for the Cook County Normal School (later Chicago State University), a teacher's college serving the Chicago region. Normal Park developed around the school, paving the way for incoming middle-class homebuyers. In the 1870s Englewood High School was opened. BECK'S AMERICAN BAND, ENGLEWOOD The first religious mission to the area was begun by the Presbyterians, but the first church was St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church, established in 1869. In the 1870s Protestants of every variety established churches. By 1880 Germans, Irish, and Scots were the largest ethnic groups, but were supplanted at the turn of the century by Poles and other Eastern European immigrants. By 1887 horsecar lines connected Englewood to downtown, followed by electric trolleys in 1896 and the Elevated line in 1907. By 1922, 2,900 street railways, Elevated, and suburban trains serviced Englewood daily. Encyclopedia of Chicago
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 (Middlesex, Surrey, Hampshire, and Kent): nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wisdom (Old English wīsdōm) ‘wisdom, learning’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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