Son Ford

Brief Life History of Son

When Son Ford was born on 7 December 1904, in Humboldt, California, United States, his father, William Joseph Ford, was 31 and his mother, Mary Ellen Feltz, was 33. He died before 1910, in Mad River Township, Humboldt, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

William Joseph Ford
1873–1951
Mary Ellen Feltz
1871–1953
George Albert Ford
1893–1979
Rebecca B. Ford
1895–1902
Rhoda Alida Ford
1897–1945
May Matilda Ford
1898–1960
William Edward Ford
1900–1970
Harold Clifton Ford
1901–1965
Rebecca Elizabeth Ford
1903–1977
Son Ford
1904–1910
John Hooker Ford
1906–1998
Gertrude Rose Ford
1911–1993
Elaine Viola Ford
1913–1918
Alberta Audrey Ford
1915–2010
Robert Gordon Ford
1917–1937

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    World Events (3)

    1906 · Saving Food Labels

    The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

    1906 · Licencing Butchers

    A law that makes it a crime to misbrand meat being sold as food, and ensures that the meat is slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.

    1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake

    A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.

    Name Meaning

    English: topographic name for someone who lived near a ford (Middle English, Old English ford), or a habitational name from one of the many places called with this word, such as Ford (Durham, Herefordshire, Northumberland, Shropshire, Sussex), Ford in Sefton (Lancashire), Ford in Crediton and Ford in Holcombe Rogus (both Devon), Ford in Litton and Ford in Wiveliscombe (both Somerset).

    Irish: Anglicized form (quasi-translation) of various Gaelic names, for example MacGiolla na Naomh ‘son of Gilla na Naomh’ (a personal name meaning ‘servant of the saints’), Mac Conshámha ‘son of Conshnámha’ (a personal name composed of the elements con ‘dog’ + snámh ‘to swim’), in all of which the final syllable was wrongly thought to be áth ‘ford’, and Ó Fuar(th)áin (see Foran ).

    Americanized form of French Faure ‘blacksmith’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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