Brief Life History of Wallace Everett
When Wallace Everett Caldwell was born on 26 April 1890, in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States, his father, Dr Frank Eddy Caldwell, was 32 and his mother, Anna Frances Horton, was 30. He married Harriet Elvira Wilmot on 8 June 1915, in Kings, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He immigrated to New York City, New York, United States in 1955 and lived in Chapel Hill Township, Orange, North Carolina, United States for about 1 years and Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina, United States in 1961. He died on 6 October 1961, in Chapel Hill, Orange, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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- Wallage E Caldwell, "United States Census, 1950"
- Wallace Evertt Caldwell, "New York, New York City Births, 1846-1909"
- Wallace E Caldwell, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
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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.
1897 · First Bill for Women Suffrage
In 1897, Senator J.L. Hyatt introduced the woman suffrage bill in North Carolina. The bill did not make it past the committee.
1909 · The NAACP is formed
Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: habitational name from any of several places in England and Scotland, variously spelled, that are named with Old English ceald ‘cold’ + well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Caldwell in North Yorkshire is one major source of the surname; Caldwell in Renfrewshire in Scotland another. Possibly also from Caldwell (Warwickshire), Caldwall (Worcestershire), Cauldwell (Bedfordshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire), Caudle Green (Gloucestershire), Caudle Ditch or Cawdle Fen (Cambridgeshire), Chadwell (Essex, Hertfordshire, Leicestershire, Wiltshire), Chardwell (Essex), or Chardle Ditch (Cambridgeshire, early recorded as Kadewelle).
Irish: when not the English surname, this is an Anglicized form of Ó Fuarghuis or Ó hUarghusa ‘descendant of (F)uarghus’, a personal name whose literal sense ‘cold’ + ‘choice’ was reinterpreted as coming from fuaruisce ‘cold water’.
History: Several Caldwells emigrated from Scotland to America by way of Ireland in the 18th century. James Caldwell (1734–81), a son of settler John Caldwell, was born in Charlotte County, VA, and was a militant clergyman during the revolutionary war. Andrew Caldwell, a Scottish farmer, emigrated to North America in 1718 and started a family in Lancaster County, PA. His son David was a Presbyterian clergyman and well-known revolutionary war patriot.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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