When Peter Ellis Jr. was born in December 1847, in Franklin, Illinois, United States, his father, Peter Ellis Sr., was 28 and his mother, Mary McGuire, was 20. He married Nancy J Simpson on 29 December 1867, in Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in LaSalle Township, LaSalle, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died on 12 November 1917, at the age of 69, and was buried in Masonic And Odd Fellows Cemetery, Benton, Franklin, Illinois, United States.
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Starting as a voluntary association to help buyers and sellers meet to negotiate and make contracts. The Chicago Board of Trade is one of the oldest futures and options exchanges in the world and it is open 22 hours per day to stay competitive.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English: from the Middle English personal name Elis, an Old French vernacular form of Elias, the Latin and New Testament Greek form of Hebrew Eliyahu; see Elijah and compare Elias , Lias , Ely .
English: possibly in some instances from the Middle English female personal name Elice, a pet form of Elizabeth .
Welsh: from Elis, a shortened form of the Welsh personal name Elisse (earlier Elisedd, a derivative of elus ‘kindly, benevolent’). As usual in Welsh, the stress in Elisse is on the penultimate syllable -li-, which shifts to initial El- when the name is shortened to Elis. It later became confused with Ellis in 1 above.
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