Brief Life History of Ezra
When Ezra Galer was born on 15 July 1864, in Iowa, United States, his father, Daniel Galer, was 52 and his mother, Martha Farnsworth, was 40. He married Clara Ellen Mott on 16 April 1890, in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Princeton, Bureau, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Concord Township, Bureau, Illinois, United States in 1880. He was buried in United States.
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Sources (8)
- Egra C. Goler, "United States Census, 1880"
- E. C. Galer, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Ezra Galer in entry for Lloyd Charles Galer, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1871
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
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
English (East Anglia): variant of Gaylor .
Polish: unexplained.
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from the village of Gali (Belarus, standard transliteration Hali), Galy (Ukraine, standard transliteration Haly), or Gało (northeastern Poland), formed with Yiddish gentilic suffix -er.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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