Brief Life History of Lewis Snyder
When Lewis Snyder Norris was born on 4 October 1855, in Marklesburg, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Thomas Norris, was 41 and his mother, Nancy Snyder, was 31. He married Ella Margaret Johnston on 18 December 1879, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Penn Township, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Mount Union, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. He died on 9 January 1931, in Huntingdon, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Mount Union, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Lewis Norris in household of Thomas Norris, "United States Census, 1860"
- Lewis Snyder Norris, "Find A Grave Index"
- Louis B in entry for Charles C South and Mary Grace Norris, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Middle English norreis, noreis, norais ‘northerner’ (Anglo-Norman French noreis), used both of Norwegians and of inhabitants of northern England and Scotland.
from the Middle English personal name Norreis, derived from norreis ‘northerner’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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