Brief Life History of Francis Warren
When Francis Warren Wells was born on 4 September 1881, in Moline, Rock Island, Illinois, United States, his father, Jerome Wells, was 27 and his mother, Anna Mary Stricker, was 24. He married Nellie Vianna Perry on 1 June 1907, in Hood River, Hood River, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Election Precinct 9 Pine Forest, Deschutes, Oregon, United States in 1940 and Hood River, Oregon, United States in 1961. He died on 29 December 1966, in Oregon, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Pilot Butte Cemetery, Bend, Deschutes, Oregon, United States.
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- Francis W Wells, "United States 1950 Census"
- Francis Warren Wells, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
- Warren Wells, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1886
Historical Boundaries - 1886: Crook, Oregon, United States; 1917: Deschutes, Oregon, United States
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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