When Ella Almira White was born on 9 January 1883, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, her father, Thomas Howard White, was 46 and her mother, Almira Louisa Greenleaf, was 44. She married Horatio Clark Ford II on 7 May 1908, in Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 10 September 1952, in Lyndhurst, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
In an attempt to detect a medium of space called aether, Albert A. Michelson and Edward W. Morley started to experiment to see if there was any relative motion of matter through light waves. The result was negative and is generally considered to be the first strong evidence against the aether theory. Even though it has failed multiple times, the same type of experiment has been repeated many times with higher amounts of sensitivity to the sensors.
A law that funded many irrigation and agricultural projects in the western states.
English: from Middle English white, wit (Old English hwīt ‘white’), hence a nickname for someone with white hair or a pale complexion. In some cases it is perhaps from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Hwīta, a short form of names in Hwīt- (from hwīt ‘white’). The name may also be topographic, referring to someone who lived by a bend or curve in a river or road (from Old English wiht ‘bend’), the source of the placename of Great Whyte in Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (compare Wight ). This name is also a variant of Wight . The surname White is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for any of several Irish and Scottish Gaelic names based on bán ‘white, fair’ (see Bain 1, McElwain ) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). The English surname has been Gaelicized in Ireland as de Faoite.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘white’, for example German Weiss , French Blanc , Polish Białas (see Bialas ), Slovenian Belec , or any other synonymous Slavic surname beginning with Bel-, Bev-, Biel- or Bil-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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