Brief Life History of Arthur Wilber
When Arthur Wilber Keith was born on 6 November 1876, in Hamilton, New York, United States, his father, Charles A Keith, was 37 and his mother, Louise D Cobb, was 34. He married Mary McHale on 25 October 1905, in Franklin Springs, Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Rotterdam, Schenectady, New York, United States in 1900 and Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States for about 15 years. He died on 30 October 1935, in Franklin Springs, Kirkland, Oneida, New York, United States, at the age of 58.
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- Arthur W Keith, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: Arthur W. Keith - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Arthur W. Keith
- Arthur Wilber Keith, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
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: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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