Brief Life History of Owen
When Owen Davis was born on 9 August 1882, in Salem, Utah, Utah, United States, his father, Henry Orson Davis, was 35 and his mother, Eliza Maria Ivie, was 40. He married Emma Elizabeth Allred on 16 March 1904, in Emery, Emery, Utah, United States. He lived in Ferron, Emery, Utah, United States in 1900. He died in 1914, at the age of 32.
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- Owen Davis in household of Marian Foote, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Owen Davis - Memory of Someone: birth:
- Owen Davis, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
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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Autobiography of Edna May Foote/Burgess/Jensen
EDNA MAY FOOTE BURGESS JENSEN I was born in a little settlement called the , “Creek”, a branch of Emery Ward Emery Co., Utah, on the first day of may 1901. I was the eleventh child of very faithful …
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