Brief Life History of Carl Robert
When Carl Robert Francis was born on 6 July 1881, in Carbon Hill, Hocking, Ohio, United States, his father, James Henry Francis, was 30 and his mother, Susan Elizabeth Barren, was 32. He married Lillian Anna Thurston on 31 March 1909, in Marion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Hocking, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Centralia, Marion, Illinois, United States for about 30 years. He died on 9 October 1950, at the age of 69, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Centralia Township, Marion, Illinois, United States.
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- Carl Francis, "United States Census, 1920"
- Carroll R. Francis, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Carl Francis, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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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.
1885 · The First Skyscraper
The Home Insurance Building is considered to be the first skyscraper in the world. It was supported both inside and outside by steel and metal that were deemed fireproof and also it was reinforced with concrete. It originally had ten stories but in 1891 two more were added.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
English: from the Old French personal name Franceis, modern French François, from Latin Franciscus, originally ‘Frank’, though later used to denote a Frenchman. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father was absent in France at the time of his birth. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Francesco and Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Franc , and also their derivatives, e.g. Croatian Francišković (see Francisco 4).
English: ethnic name from the Old French adjective Franceis ‘French’ (see 1 above).
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, or an adoption of the non-Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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