When John William Davis was born on 6 June 1872, in Oskaloosa, Mahaska, Iowa, United States, his father, Abner Davis, was 37 and his mother, Matilda Ellen Whitaker, was 30. He married Louise Elnora Hicks on 27 January 1900, in Christian, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Stone, Missouri, United States in 1920 and Ruth C Township, Stone, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 January 1959, in Crane, Stone, Missouri, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Eisenhour Cemetery, Spokane, Christian, Missouri, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1876: Stone, Missouri, United States
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.
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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