When Andrew Jackson Davis was born on 15 December 1878, in Franklin, Alabama, United States, his father, William Residence Davis, was 57 and his mother, Temperance Elizabeth Stanford, was 40. He married Luetta Barnes about 1911, in Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Stonewall, Pontotoc, Oklahoma, United States in 1910 and Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona, United States for about 20 years. He died on 30 August 1956, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 77.
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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.
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This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
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