John Lee Linn

Brief Life History of John Lee

When John Lee Linn was born on 30 September 1878, in Simpson, Mitchell, Kansas, United States, his father, Jesse Lee Linn, was 25 and his mother, Catharine Virginia Murray, was 23. He married Ella Hortensa Boice on 17 January 1906, in Shell Creek, Johnson, Wyoming, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Basin, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1910 and Election District 9 Greybull, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States in 1940. He died on 5 April 1958, in Greybull, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Greybull, Big Horn, Wyoming, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Lee Linn
1878–1958
Ella Hortensa Boice
1886–1942
Marriage: 17 January 1906
Ella Virginia Linn
1907–1982
Jessie Frank Linn
1909–1987
Edna L. Linn
1913–2000
Edith Hortense Linn
1915–1996

Sources (23)

  • John L Linn, "United States 1950 Census"
  • John Lee Linn, "Wyoming Marriages, 1869-1923"
  • John Lee Linn, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1896

Historical Boundaries - 1896: Big Horn, Wyoming, United States

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

Scottish: variant of Lynn .

German: habitational name from a place called Linn, named with lin ‘swamp, bog, marsh’.

German: from an ancient Germanic personal name, Linto, formed with Old High German lind(i) ‘soft’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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