Brief Life History of Hiram Frederick
When Hiram Frederick Davis was born on 1 August 1880, in Galena, Cherokee, Kansas, United States, his father, Hiram Sears Davis, was 36 and his mother, Nancy Ellen "Nellie" Hahn, was 28. He married Florence Coldwell on 5 July 1899, in Galena, Cherokee, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Election District A, Denver, Colorado, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He registered for military service in 1898. He died on 24 December 1962, in Denver, Colorado, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Denver, Colorado, United States.
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- H F Daris, "United States Census, 1950"
- H Frederick Davis, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Hiram Frederick Davis, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
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.
1881 · Kansas Prohibits Alcoholic Beverages
Kansas became the first state to adopt a constitutional amendment which prohibited all alcoholic beverages on February 19, 1881.
1902 · So Much Farm Land
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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