Brief Life History of Everett Johnson
When Everett Johnson White was born on 23 February 1857, in Gilroy, Santa Clara, California, United States, his father, Erastus Johnson, was 30 and his mother, Mary Pamelia Silsby, was 28. He married Fannie Talbot Lucas on 24 August 1883, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States in 1900 and St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States for about 20 years. He died on 13 March 1935, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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- Edward White in household of S F White, "United States Census, 1870"
- Everett J White, "Find A Grave Index"
- Everett White in entry for White, "Iowa Births and Christenings, 1830-1950"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
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.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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