Theodore Edwards

Male1905–

Brief Life History of Theodore

When Theodore Edwards was born in 1905, in Nebraska, United States, his father, Jesse A Edwards, was 31 and his mother, Ellen Jane Ashburn, was 22.

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Family Time Line

Jesse A Edwards
1874–1944
Ellen Jane Ashburn
1883–1986
Theodore Edwards
1905–
Goldie Frances Edwards
1906–1997
Conita Mary Edwards
1908–1997
James Lewis Edwards
1910–1958

Sources (1)

  • Theodore Edwards in household of Jessie E Edwards, "United States Census, 1910"

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (4)

World Events (3)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

Age 1

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

Age 1

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.

1944 · Congress Passes the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Project

Age 39

The Flood Control Act of 1944 was passed and would later be called the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program. It was named after the authors of the program Lewis A. Pick and William Glenn Sloan. It began as two separate plans but they both had the idea for an irrigation system that would help with the flooding of the Missouri River.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.

History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.

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

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