When Ervin Benjamin Davis was born on 21 March 1881, in Bladen, Webster, Nebraska, United States, his father, David Perry Davis, was 31 and his mother, Clarissa Jane Jacobs, was 30. He lived in Eldorado Township, Clay, Nebraska, United States in 1885 and Logan Township, Adams, Nebraska, United States in 1900. He died on 1 January 1946, in Kennewick, Benton, Washington, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Kennewick, Benton, Washington, United States.
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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.
Historical Periods 1883: Yakima, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Yakima, Washington, United States 1905: Benton, Washington, United States
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
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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