Brief Life History of Ottis
When Ottis Campbell was born on 7 September 1885, in Huntington, Indiana, United States, his father, William Jackson Campbell, was 37 and his mother, Malinda B Gravatt, was 32. He married Mary Bessie VanMeter on 7 November 1908, in Huntington, Huntington Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Rock Creek Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States for about 10 years. He died on 14 February 1918, at the age of 32.
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- Otto Campbell, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Otis Campbell - Government record: birth-name: Otis Campbell
- Otis Campbell, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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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.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Scottish: nickname from Gaelic cam ‘crooked, bent’ + beul ‘mouth’. As a result of folk etymology, the surname was often represented in Latin documents as de bello campo ‘of the fair field’, which led to the name sometimes being ‘translated’ into Anglo-Norman French as Beauchamp .
Irish (North Armagh): adopted for Gaelic Mac Cathmhaoil ‘son of Cathmhaol’ (literally ‘battle chief’): see Caulfield and Cowell .
English: variant of Camel , under the influence of the Scottish name (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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