Brief Life History of Ellsworth
When Ellsworth Lewis was born on 22 September 1876, in Marrs Township, Posey, Indiana, United States, his father, Thompson Price Lewis, was 36 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Green, was 32. He married Rosetta Harrison on 18 August 1901, in Posey, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He died on 20 December 1959, in Evansville, Knight Township, Vanderburgh, Indiana, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Calvin Cemetery, Posey, Indiana, United States.
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- Elsworth Lewis, "United States Census, 1920"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elsworth Lewis - Government record: birth-name: Elsworth Lewis
- Ellsworth Lewis, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: from the Middle English, Old French personal name Lewis, Leweis, Lowis, from ancient Germanic (originally West Frankish) Hludwig (itself from hlōd- ‘fame, famous’ + wīg- ‘battle’). This was Latinized as Ludovicus and Chlodovisus, which were gallicized as Clovis or Clouis, French Louis. The name may also appear as Lawis, Laweys, Lawes, by unrounding of the vowel of Lowis on the analogy of the variation between Low and Law as pet forms of Middle English Lourence alias Laurence. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Laws 2 and compare Lawrence .
Welsh: adopted for the Welsh personal name Llywelyn (see Llewellyn ).
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lughaidh ‘son of Lughaidh’. This is one of the most common Old Irish personal names. It is derived from Lugh ‘brightness’, which was the name of a Celtic god.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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