Brief Life History of William Franklin
When William Franklin Davis was born on 22 October 1889, in Walton, Lane, Oregon, United States, his father, Armstead Franklin Davis, was 45 and his mother, Caroline Reeves, was 45. He married Maude Lillie Oldham on 18 June 1911, in Junction City, Lane, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Judkins, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1950. He died on 13 October 1952, in Bend, Deschutes, Oregon, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Rest-Haven Memorial Park, Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States.
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- William F Davis, "United States 1950 Census"
- William Davis, "Oregon, Center for Health Statistics, Birth Records, 1903-1918"
- William O Davis, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
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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.
1898 · Oregon Historical Society
The Oregon Historical Society was founded on December 17, 1898, for the “collection, preservation, exhibition, and publication of material of a historical character, especially that relating to the history of Oregon and of the United States.”
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
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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