Brief Life History of Ellis
When Ellis Franklin was born on 29 June 1872, in El Monte, Los Angeles, California, United States, his father, John Franklin, was 29 and his mother, Mary Julia Avis, was 16. He married May Cummings on 3 June 1899, in Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in El Monte Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1900 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1910. He died on 30 March 1948, in Vista, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Rosemead, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Ellis Franklin in household of John Franklin, "United States Census, 1880"
- Marriage of Ellis Franklin and Gertrude C Coraggio, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Ellis Franklin, "BillionGraves Index"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .
History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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