Brief Life History of Mary
Mary Landis was born in October 1877, in Logan, Ohio, United States. She married Job Hamilton Cavinder on 16 March 1897, in Logan, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Duchouquet Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States in 1940 and Wapakoneta, Duchouquet Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States in 1950. She died on 21 March 1962, in Lima, Allen, Ohio, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Wapakoneta, Auglaize, Ohio, United States.
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- Mary Carinder, "United States Census, 1950"
- Mary Landis, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Mary Landis in entry for Bernard Coleman and Edith Cavinder, "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.
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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Swiss German and South German: nickname for a highwayman or for someone who lays waste to the land, Middle High German landoese. The surname of Swiss German origin is also found in France (Alsace), where it is rare. Compare Landes and Lantis .
Americanized form of German Landers 3. Alternatively, an altered form of Landers 4. Compare Landess .
History: The ancestor of many of the Americans with the surname Landis was Christopher (or Christian) Landis or Landers from Germany who settled in VA (now WV) in the middle of the 18th century and later moved to NC. The original form of his surname is not known; both the surnames Landis and Landers are found in Germany and they are both established among his descendants, as is the (other) Americanized form Landess. — This is also the name of a Swiss Mennonite family, originating from the canton of Zurich, whose members settled, after the expulsion from Switzerland in the 17th century, in the Palatinate, Germany, and in Alsace, France, or immigrated to America. In both Germany and America the change of the name from Landis to Landes occured. In the first half of the 18th century there were several Mennonites named Landis or Landes who immigrated to PA. The town of Landisville in Lancaster County, PA, is named for one of them.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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