Brief Life History of Edith
When Edith Campbell was born on 6 March 1875, in Loami Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, her father, Simon Peter Campbell, was 20 and her mother, Katie Angeline Workman, was 17. She married Joseph Oscar Nevius on 3 October 1894, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Curran, Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1880. She died on 29 March 1896, in Loami Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Campbell Cemetery, Loami, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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- Eddith Campbell in household of Simon Campbell, "United States Census, 1880"
- Edith Nevius, "Find A Grave Index"
- Edith Nevius (1875-1896) - Find A Grave Memorial
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World Events (7)
1876 · The First Worlds Fair in the U.S.
The First official World's Fair, was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. 37 Countries provided venues for all to see.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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