When William Ernest Ellis was born on 25 March 1904, in Durham, Roger Mills, Oklahoma, United States, his father, Walter John Ellis, was 24 and his mother, Samantha Louisa Shroyer, was 22. He married Gladys McKinney Hinton on 3 April 1926, in Florence, Pinal, Arizona, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Rawdon Township, Ellis, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Pinal, Arizona, United States in 1920. He died on 23 December 1994, in Coolidge, Pinal, Arizona, United States, at the age of 90, and was buried in Valley Memorial Park Cemetery, Coolidge, Pinal, Arizona, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Historical Boundaries 1925: Pinal, Arizona, United States
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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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