Brief Life History of Wesley George
When Wesley George Walker was born on 23 January 1884, in Stonycreek Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Alexander Walker, was 41 and his mother, Rosanna Shaver, was 40. He married Sadie Platt on 15 February 1905, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Somerset, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 9 October 1962, in Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Somerset Township, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Wesley G Walker, "United States 1950 Census"
- Legacy NFS Source: George Walker - Government record: birth-name: George Walker
- Wesley G. Walker, "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 (mainly North and Midlands) and Scottish: occupational name for a fuller, from Middle English walker, Old English wealcere (an agent derivative of wealcan ‘to walk, tread’), ‘one who trampled cloth in a bath of lye or kneaded it, in order to strengthen it’. This was the regular term for the occupation during the Middle Ages in western and northern England. Compare Fuller and Tucker . As a Scottish surname it has also been used as a translation of Gaelic Mac an Fhucadair ‘son of the fuller’. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: The name was brought to North America from northern England and Scotland independently by many different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Samuel Walker came to Lynn, MA, c. 1630; Philip Walker was in Rehoboth, MA, in or before 1643. The surname was also established in VA before 1650; a Thomas Walker, born in 1715 in King and Queen County, VA, was a physician, soldier, and explorer.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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