Brief Life History of Rex Egbert
When Rex Egbert Wells was born on 16 February 1887, in Libertyville, Lake, Illinois, United States, his father, Edgar Higby Wells, was 30 and his mother, Edith Elizabeth Grummitt, was 25. He married Grace Evalyn Weeks on 10 July 1912, in Kane, Illinois, United States. He died on 29 March 1970, in Saint Charles, Kane, Illinois, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Saint Charles, Kane, Illinois, United States.
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- Rex E Wells, "United States Census, 1940"
- Rex Wells, "Illinois Births and Christenings, 1824-1940"
- Rex E Wells, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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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.
1892 · The Chicago Canal
The Chicago River Canal was built as a sewage treatment scheme to help the city's drinking water not to get contaminated. While the Canal was being constructed the Chicago River's flow was reversed so it could be treated before draining back out into Lake Michigan.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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