Brief Life History of John Wheaton
When John Wheaton Lee was born on 16 December 1876, in New York, United States, his father, William S Lee, was 26 and his mother, Mary F Wheaton, was 27. He married Frances A. Berry on 20 September 1899, in Auburn, Cayuga, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Oceanside, San Diego, California, United States in 1935 and Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. He died on 26 November 1955, in San Gabriel, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 78.
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- John W Lee, "United States Census, 1940"
- John Wheaton Lee, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Jno Wheaton Lee, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1898 · The Kensington Runestone
A Swedish man, Olof Ohman, was farming on his land when he came across a 202-pound rock slab that had strange writing on it. Convinced it was proof that Scandinavian explorers came to that area before Columbus found the Americas, he had it looked at by scholars and linguists to find its translation. There has been a drawn-out debate on the stone's authenticity, with a scholarly consensus that classifies it as a hoax and the community which is convinced that it is authentic.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese Young, Sang, Jae, Jong, Jung, Sung, Yong, Kyung, Seung, Dong, Kwang, Myung.
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow or a patch of arable land, Middle English lee, lea, from Old English lēa, dative case (used after a preposition) of lēah, which originally meant ‘wood or glade’.
English: habitational name from any of the many places in England named with Old English lēah ‘wood, glade’, including Lee in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Kent, and Shropshire, and Lea in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Herefordshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, and Wiltshire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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