Brief Life History of Isaac Calvin
When Isaac Calvin Davis was born on 8 September 1801, in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Calvin Davis, was 23 and his mother, Hannah Crocker, was 23. He married Pamelia Maria Heath on 15 April 1827, in Lee, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Portage, Ohio, United States in 1860 and Freedom, Portage, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 September 1881, in Freedom Township, Portage, Ohio, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Freedom Township, Portage, Ohio, United States.
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- Isaac C Davis, "United States Census, 1870"
- Isaac C. Davis, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"
- Isaac Davis, "Massachusetts Town Deaths Index, ca. 1640-1961"
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1803
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
1803
Ohio was the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory.
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
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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