Brief Life History of Warren Willis
When Warren Willis Reed was born on 19 June 1900, in Hyde Park, Lamoille, Vermont, United States, his father, Nelson Harry Reed, was 26 and his mother, Beulah C. Moxley, was 19. He married Myrla Angie Preman on 1 September 1923, in Wolcott, Lamoille, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wolcott, Lamoille, Vermont, United States in 1910 and Barre Town, Washington, Vermont, United States for about 10 years. In 1918, at the age of 18, his occupation is listed as laborer at munitions... remington in Swanton, Franklin, Vermont, United States. He died on 7 May 1961, in Barre City, Washington, Vermont, United States, at the age of 60.
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- Warren W Reed, "United States 1950 Census"
- Warren Willis Reed, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- Warren W. Reed, "Vermont Deaths and Burials, 1871-1965"
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1901 · Theodore Roosevelt becomes the Twenty-sixth President of the United States
After the Assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as the Twenty-sixth President of the United States. During his first term he didn't have a Vice President but for his second term Charles W. Fairbanks filled the position.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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