Brief Life History of William Percival
When William Percival Woods was born on 23 April 1878, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, William Wells Woods, was 37 and his mother, Melvina Caroline Blanche Whitney, was 27. He died on 20 October 1887, at the age of 9, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- William P Woods in household of William Woods, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Percival Woods - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: William Percival Woods
- Percival Woods, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Wood with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: adopted as a translation of Ó Cuill ‘descendant of Coll’ (see Quill ), or in Ulster of Mac Con Coille ‘son of Cú Choille’, a personal name meaning ‘hound of the wood’, which has also been mistranslated Cox , as if formed with coileach ‘cock, rooster’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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