Brief Life History of Henry Archey
When Henry Archey Chew was born on 14 October 1880, in Upper Sandusky, Wyandot, Ohio, United States, his father, William Washington Chew, was 39 and his mother, Louisa Fink, was 28.
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- Henry Archey Chew, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Henry Archey Chew, "Ohio, Births and Christenings, 1821-1962"
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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.
1912 · The Girl Scouts
Like the Boy Scouts of America, The Girl Scouts is a youth organization for girls in the United States. Its purpose is to prepare girls to empower themselves and by acquiring practical skills.
Name Meaning
English (Gloucestershire): habitational name from any of the places in Somerset named Chew Magna of Chew Stoke, which is named for the river on which it stands, a Celtic name, perhaps cognate with Welsh cyw ‘young animal or bird, chicken’.
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from any of the places called Chew, in Yorkshire and in the parish of Billington, Lancashire, possibly named with Old English cēo ‘fish gill’, used in the transferred sense of a ravine, in a similar way to Old Norse gil.
English: nickname from Old English cīo, cēo, denoting any of the smaller, chattering species of crow, especially the red-billed chough.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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