Brief Life History of George Chaffee
When George Chaffee Young was born on 11 April 1868, in Pontiac, Livingston, Illinois, United States, his father, Abraham Webster Young, was 32 and his mother, Susan Ellen Beall, was 25. He married Mary Frances Dick on 6 March 1894, in Emington, Livingston, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Allen, Kansas, United States in 1900 and Grant Township, Jewell, Kansas, United States for about 10 years. He died on 10 November 1939, in Formoso, Jewell, Kansas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Formoso, Jewell, Kansas, United States.
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- George Young, "United States Census, 1930"
- George C. Young, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: George Chaffie Young - Individual or family possessions: death: 9 November 1939; Formoso, Jewell, Kansas, United States
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1869
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Livingston, Illinois, United States
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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