When John Francis Davis was born on 7 September 1902, in Wymore, Gage, Nebraska, United States, his father, William Henry Davies, was 33 and his mother, Jane Rosa Jones, was 27. He married Nellie Velma Hilder on 20 December 1924, in Marysville, Marshall, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Barneston, Gage, Nebraska, United States in 1930 and Lincoln, Lancaster, Nebraska, United States in 1940. He died on 31 December 1973, at the age of 71, and was buried in Simi Valley, Ventura, California, United States.
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A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
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.
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