When Mary Elizabeth Beauchamp was born on 27 June 1900, in Ocean City, Worcester, Maryland, United States, her father, Levin Thomas Beauchamp, was 23 and her mother, Alice Virginia Littleton, was 21. She married Raymond Esham in 1916, in New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Atlantic City, Atlantic, New Jersey, United States in 1910. She died on 2 May 1970, in Nassawadox, Northampton, Virginia, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Atlantic District, Accomack, Virginia, United States.
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President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
Maggie Lena Walker was the first African American and woman to open a bank. She opened the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank on August 20, 1901. She encouraged the young people to start saving their pennies in her bank and when they hit a hundred pennies they could start a bank account with the bank.
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Some characteristic forenames: French Antoine, Jacques, Yves, Andre, Armand, Emile, Fernand, Marcel, Marthe, Remi, Alcide, Camille.
English (of Norman origin) and French: habitational name from any of several places in France, for example in Manche and Somme, that are named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair, lovely’ + champ(s) ‘field, plain’ (from Latin bello campo ‘beautiful field’). In English the surname is generally pronounced Beecham . Compare Bushaw .
English: in some cases, an Anglo-Norman French adaptation of Scottish Campbell , by translation into French of the folk etymology de campo bello ‘from the fair field’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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