Brief Life History of Jason Eli
When Jason Eli Ward was born on 3 March 1881, in Hopewell Township, Perry, Ohio, United States, his father, James W. Ward, was 26 and his mother, Mary Susan V. Speaks, was 24. He had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Hattie E Hoffman. He lived in Madison Township, Richland, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Ohio, United States in 1940. He died on 25 May 1940, in Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Mansfield, Richland, Ohio, United States.
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- Jason E Ward in household of Charles A S Casad, "United States Census, 1910"
- Jason Eli Ward, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Jason E. Ward, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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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.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Middle English ward ‘watchman, guard’ (Old English weard, used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).
English: occupational name from Middle English warde ‘armed guard’ (Old English weard ‘watching, guarding’), with the same meaning as 1 above.
Irish: shortened form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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