Brief Life History of Edward Fouig
When Edward Fouig Davis was born on 1 April 1868, in Youngsville, Callicoon, Sullivan, New York, United States, his father, Horace E. Davis, was 31 and his mother, Margaret A. Edwards, was 23. He married Aurelia M. Glines on 22 August 1888, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Judicial Township 4, Fresno, California, United States in 1900 and Fresno, Fresno, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 25 August 1933, in Fresno, California, United States, at the age of 65.
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- E F Davis, "United States Census, 1920"
- California, County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1849-1980
- Edward F. Davis, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
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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