When James Alfred Marquis was born on 24 April 1881, in Valley Township, Reno, Kansas, United States, his father, Benjamin A. Marquis, was 40 and his mother, Tabitha Ann Coupland, was 32. He married Bessie Lee Johnson on 26 November 1903. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Umatilla, Oregon, United States in 1935 and Election Precinct 11, Umatilla, Oregon, United States in 1940. He died on 20 November 1952, in Pendleton, Umatilla, Oregon, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Athena Cemetery, Athena, Umatilla, Oregon, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries 1866: Umatilla, Oregon, United States 1878: Umatilla, Oregon, United States 1889: Umatilla, Oregon, United States
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Some characteristic forenames: French Emile, Normand, Marcel, Fernand, Lucien, Rosaire, Andre, Armand, Camille, Cecile, Jacques, Francois.
French: from the title marquis ‘marquess’, applied as an ironic nickname to someone who behaved like a marquis or as a metonymic occupational name for a servant in the household of a marquis. The title, derived from an ancient Germanic word meaning ‘boundary’ (compare March ), originally referred to the governor of a border territory. Marquises did not form part of the original French feudal structure of nobility; the title was first adopted by the Counts of Toulouse because of their possessions in the border region beyond the Rhône. Compare Markee and Markey .
English: nickname from Middle English markis ‘marquis, marquess, nobleman’ (Old French marchis); see also 1 above. The word is also found as a female personal name which may also be origin of the surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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