Brief Life History of Ethel Louisa
When Ethel Louisa Likes was born in July 1873, in Illinois, United States, her father, Edmond Likes, was 28 and her mother, Emma Alzina Tharp, was 27. She married Otis Henry Walls on 24 July 1901, in Hardin, Calhoun, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Crater Precinct, Calhoun, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Carlinville, Macoupin, Illinois, United States in 1930. She died in 1967, in United States, at the age of 94.
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- Ethel L Walls, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: Ethel Louisa Likes - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Hannah L. Likes
- Ethel L Like, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Like , with excrescent -s. This surname is very rare in Britain. Compare Lykes .
Possibly also an altered form of Likens , a surname of Swedish or Flemish origin, or of Lyke 1, a surname of Flemish origin, with the addition of excrescent -s, a common feature of Americanized surnames. Compare Lykes .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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