Louis Michael Eddy

Brief Life History of Louis Michael

When Louis Michael Eddy was born on 26 February 1876, in Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States, his father, Joseph Walton Eddy, was 39 and his mother, Margaret Ava McKee, was 28. He married Elizabeth May Hollingsworth on 20 August 1898, in Cerro Gordo, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Lake Goodwin, Snohomish, Washington, United States in 1950. He died on 7 August 1965, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 89.

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Louis Michael Eddy
1876–1965
Elizabeth May Hollingsworth
1877–1957
Marriage: 20 August 1898
Bessie Almeda Eddy
1899–1987
Frances Marguerite Eddy
1902–1977

Sources (23)

  • Louis M Eddy, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Lewis M. Eddy, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
  • L M Eddy, "Washington, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"

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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 · There is now a Capital Building

The capitol building in Des Moines originally had a budget of $1,500,000 but complications arose because of the need of a redesign. The building was dedicated on January 17, 1884, but it wasn’t completed until 1886. On January 4, 1904, a fire started and swept through the areas that housed the Supreme Court and Iowa House of Representatives. A major restoration was performed and documented, with the addition of electrical lighting, elevators, and a telephone system. By the early 1980s, the sandstone exterior of the Capitol had started deteriorating and prompted the installation of canopies to protect pedestrians from falling rubble. The entire reconstruction process took around 18 years to complete.

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

Name Meaning

Cornish: from the personal name Edy (pronounced ‘eedy’), a variant of Udy , from the Middle English personal name Ude, Udy, Latinized as Udo and Odo. It may represent Old French Eude (ancient Germanic Eudo, of uncertain etymology), whose usual Latin form is Eudo. This agrees with later evidence that the original pronunciation of the initial vowel of Udy was /y:/ (as in French tu), though in the 16th century it was sometimes unrounded to /i:/, spelled -e(e)-. It was later altered to Eddy.

English: variant of Eady .

English: perhaps from a shortened form of the Middle English personal name Edwy (Old English Ēadwīg, from ēad ‘prosperity, fortune’ + wīg ‘war’), which has not survived in that form as a surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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