Clyde Edgar Hewitt

Male13 February 1904–February 1981

Brief Life History of Clyde Edgar

When Clyde Edgar Hewitt was born on 13 February 1904, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, his father, Claude Edgar Hewitt, was 31 and his mother, Ida May Dargitz, was 33. He died in February 1981, in Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Prairie Home Cemetery, Topeka, Shawnee, Kansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Clyde Edgar Hewitt
1904–1981
Frances Mae Falley
1904–1988

Sources (5)

  • Clyde Hewitt in household of Theo Zercher, "United States Census, 1940"
  • Clyde Hewitt, "United States Social Security Death Index"
  • Clyde Hewitt in household of Claude E Hewitt, "United States Census, 1910"

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World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

Age 2

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1906 · Licencing Butchers

Age 2

A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

1927

Age 23

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

Name Meaning

English:

from the Middle English personal name Hewet, Huet, Hughet, Howet, pet forms of Hugh (Middle English Hewe, Hue; see Hugh and compare Hew ). The spelling Hughet stood for both Huet and the synonymous Huget; see Huggett . This surname has also been established in Ireland since the 14th century.

habitational name from Hewitts in Chelsfield or Hewitts in Willesborough (both Kent), both named from Old English hīewett ‘cutting’, denoting a place where trees had been cut down. Here there lived families called de la Hewatte (1270), de la hewett (1301), and atte Hewete (1338). The name may also be topographic for someone who lived in a newly made clearing in a wood.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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