Brief Life History of Dorr Arthur
When Dorr Arthur Wells was born on 21 October 1885, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, David I Wells, was 27 and his mother, Ida May Damon, was 26. He married Delva Jane Walker Baumgardner about 1909. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years. He died in 1960, at the age of 75, and was buried in Millcreek Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Dorr Wells, "United States 1950 Census"
- Dorr Arthur Wells, "Pennsylvania Delayed Birth Records, 1941-1976"
- Dorr Wells, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
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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