Brief Life History of Elsworth Elza
When Elsworth Elza Booth was born on 28 June 1879, in Jackson, Jackson, Ohio, United States, his father, Henry Clayton Booth, was 25 and his mother, Elizabeth J. Davis, was 25. He married Margaret Jane Prichard on 15 January 1910, in Saint Clairsville, Belmont, Ohio, United States. He lived in Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, United States in 1900 and Marion, Marion, Ohio, United States in 1910. He died on 29 October 1929, in Wyandotte, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Ridgewood Cemetery, Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, United States.
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- Elzie Booth in household of Henry C Booth, "United States Census, 1900"
- Elza Booth, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Elza Booth, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
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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.
1881 · Hudson's
Clothing merchant Joseph Lowthian Hudson opened his first store inside the Detroit Opera House on April 2, 1881. Hudson was very successful with his small store and was able to move to a larger location on Woodward Avenue, far outside what was then the commercial district. Hudson's continued to grow until it became the tallest department store in the world. Hudson's 2,124,316 square foot store filled 32 floors, had 51 elevators, 48 escalators, 705 fitting rooms, and served over 16,000 meals a day.
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
English (northern): topographic or occupational name from Middle English bothe (Old Danish bōth) ‘temporary shelter, such as a covered market stall or a cattle-herdsman's hut’. The latter sense was predominant in the Pennines of Lancashire and Yorkshire, where there were many cattle farms or vaccaries, and whose subdivisions were known as ‘booths’. The principal meaning of the surname there was therefore probably ‘cattle herdsman’, ‘man in charge of a vaccary’, and thus identical with Boothman . Elsewhere it may have denoted a shopkeeper who owned a temporary market stall, but no evidence has been found to confirm this use of the surname. In the British Isles the surname is still more common in northern England, where Scandinavian influence was more marked, and in Scotland, where the word was borrowed into Gaelic as both(an).
History: Robert Booth (1604–72) is mentioned in the colonial records of Exeter, NH, in 1645. He subsequently moved to ME.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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