When Ila Marie Davis was born on 24 November 1913, in Richland, Wisconsin, United States, her father, Isaac Augustus Davis, was 29 and her mother, Mabel Clara Pickett, was 22. She married Avery A Peckham on 22 June 1931, in Richland Center, Richland, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Richland Center, Richland, Wisconsin, United States in 1930 and Ithaca, Richland, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. She died on 30 December 1997, in Beloit, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Richland, Richland, Wisconsin, United States.
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
The first minimum wage law took effect in 1919 and specified women and children under 17 years of age should be paid 22 cents per hour.
The Bureau of Investigation's name was changed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to help citizens know that the Government is helping protect from threats both domestically and abroad.
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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