When Edgar Higby Wells was born on 26 August 1856, in Chester, Howard, Iowa, United States, his father, Worden Yates Wells, was 31 and his mother, Orsavilla Blakeley, was 25. He married Edith Elizabeth Grummitt on 18 January 1880, in Howard, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Iowa River Township, Howard, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Oak Dale Township, Howard, Iowa, United States in 1870. He died on 26 September 1933, in Libertyville, Lake, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Libertyville, Lake, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1858: Howard, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
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