Brief Life History of James Swank
When James Swank Anderson was born on 11 April 1876, in Bates, Missouri, United States, his father, Samuel Anderson, was 44 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Swank, was 39. He married Mary Elizabeth Cumpton in 1893. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1935 and Cholame Judicial Township, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1940. He died on 21 November 1945, in Pismo Beach, San Luis Obispo, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- James S Anderson, "United States Census, 1930"
- James Swank Anderson, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- James Swank Anderson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1878 · Early Settlers Arrive in Mesa
George W. Sirrine, Charles I. Robson, Charles Crismon, and Francis M. Pomeroy broke ahead of the Mesa Company to determine the permanent location for the new settlers. They arrived to Ft. Utah in Arizona on December 1877. The remainder of the nine families of the Mesa Company arrived on February 14, 1878. The company moved five miles upstream to utilize an ancient canal. The townsite was known as Mesa City.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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