When Franklin Dawes Elwood was born on 4 August 1860, in Preston, Jackson, Iowa, United States, his father, Kinsey Elwood, was 34 and his mother, Percey Elizabeth Dawes, was 24. He married Katherine Harris on 30 August 1884, in Oxford Junction, Jones, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Howard, Iowa, United States in 1915 and Afton Township, Howard, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died on 9 May 1942, in Elma, Howard, Iowa, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Elma, Howard, Iowa, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1870: Jackson, Iowa, United States
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.
English: from the Middle English personal name Elwald, Elwold, Alwold (Old English Ælfweald, ælf ‘elf’ + weald ‘rule’). The surname is now rare in Scotland, but was once quite common in the Scottish borders where it was altered to Elliott and Ellett . The different surnames may have co-existed and become confused with one other.
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