Brief Life History of Daniel Ellis
When Daniel Ellis Thornton was born on 9 March 1873, in Iowa, United States, his father, Joseph Thomas Thornton, was 37 and his mother, Cynthia Carson, was 23. He married Millie Ethel Lamb in 1899, in Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1918 and San Miguel, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1930. He died on 1 November 1935, at the age of 62, and was buried in San Miguel, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
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- Daniel E Thornton, "United States Census, 1930"
- Daniel Elice Thornton, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Daniel E Thornton, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1876
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Rush, Kansas, United States
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from any of numerous places throughout England and Scotland so called, from Old English thorn ‘thorn tree’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’. The placename is most frequent in northern England, especially Yorkshire, where there are at least 16 possible sources for the surname.
Irish: Anglicized (translated) form of Gaelic Mac Sceacháin ‘son of Sceachán’ (see Skehan ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Draighneáin ‘descendant of Draighneán’ (see Drennan ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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