Brief Life History of Elza Lorn
When Elza Lorn Young was born on 9 March 1878, in Jackson Township, Shelby, Ohio, United States, his father, William F. Young, was 21 and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Naylor, was 14. He married Maude Edith Strawsburg on 26 April 1899, in Clark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Springfield, Clark, Ohio, United States in 1910 and Medina, Medina, Ohio, United States in 1920. He died on 22 January 1932, in Wadsworth, Medina, Ohio, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Springfield Monthly Meeting, Clinton, Ohio, United States.
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- Elza L Young, "United States Census, 1910"
- Eliza Young, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Elza L. Young, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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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.
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, Scottish, and northern Irish: nickname from Middle English yong ‘young’ (Old English geong), used to distinguish a younger man from an older man bearing the same personal name (typically, father and son). In Middle English this name is often found with the Anglo-Norman French definite article, for example Robert le Yunge. In Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland this was widely used as an English equivalent of the Gaelic nickname Og ‘young’; see Ogg . This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘young’ or similar, notably German Jung , Dutch Jong and De Jong , and French Lejeune and Lajeunesse .
Americanized form of Swedish Ljung: topographic or an ornamental name from ljung ‘(field of) heather’, or a habitational name from a placename containing this word, e.g. Ljungby.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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