Brief Life History of Walter Lee
When Walter Lee King was born on 15 September 1879, in Henry, Indiana, United States, his father, William Shields King, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Mary Shaffer, was 22. He married Della Media Hutcheson on 5 July 1905, in Reelsville, Washington Township, Putnam, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Walnut Township, Montgomery, Indiana, United States in 1880. He died on 29 May 1972, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States.
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- Walter King, "United States Census, 1920"
- Walter King, "Indiana, Marriages, 1811-1959"
- Walter Lee King, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
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.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English king ‘king’ (Old English cyning, cyng), perhaps acquired by someone with kingly qualities or as a pageant name by someone who had acted the part of a king or had been chosen as the master of ceremonies or ‘king’ of an event such as a tournament, festival or folk ritual. In North America, the surname King has absorbed several European cognates and equivalents with the same meaning, for example German König (see Koenig ) and Küng, French Roy , Slovenian, Croatian, or Serbian Kralj , Polish Krol . It is also very common among African Americans. It is also found as an artificial Jewish surname.
English: occasionally from the Middle English personal name King, originally an Old English nickname from the vocabulary word cyning, cyng ‘king’.
Irish: adopted for a variety of names containing the syllable rí (which means ‘king’ in Irish).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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