Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Davis was born on 11 March 1855, in Harrison, Virginia, United States, his father, Christian Anderson Davis, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Jane Griffin, was 22. He married Esther Hutson on 18 June 1874, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in McClellan District, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States for about 40 years. He died on 12 July 1919, in Harrison, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Center Point, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States.
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- Benj F Davis in household of Christian A Davis, "United States Census, 1870"
- Benj F. Davis, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Benjamin F Davis, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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