Brief Life History of Elsie May
When Elsie May Gates was born on 16 April 1876, in Watkins Glen, Dix, Schuyler, New York, United States, her father, Miles William Gates, was 42 and her mother, Eunice Ann Miller, was 36. She married Arthur W Freeman on 23 May 1894, in Addison, Addison, Steuben, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Ithaca, Tompkins, New York, United States in 1900 and Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States in 1910. She died on 4 January 1954, at the age of 77, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Newfield, Tompkins, New York, United States.
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- Elsie Freeman in household of Eunice Boynton, "United States Census, 1940"
- Elsie Gates Ferguson, "Find A Grave Index"
- Elsie Mae Gates in entry for John Homer Freeman and Ruth Esther Williams, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
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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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
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.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Gate with plural or excrescent -s. The English surname Gate has three possible origins: (i) a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘gate’ (Old English geat, dative plural gatum), denoting someone who lived by a gate or set of gates (possibly sometimes an occupational name for a gate keeper; compre Yates); (ii) in northern England, the East Midlands, and East Anglia, a topographic name from Middle English gate ‘street, road, path’ (Old Norse gata) for someone who lived by a road (compare Street ); (iii) a nickname meaning ‘goat’, from northern Middle English gate, gait (Old English gāt, Old Norse geitr).
Americanized form of German Götz (see Goetz ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Barrière (see Barriere ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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