Brief Life History of Otto Lewis
When Otto Lewis Whitehead was born on 19 October 1895, in Syracuse, Turkey Creek Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States, his father, William Lewis Whitehead, was 21 and his mother, Pearl Mable Bushong, was 20. He married Ellen Mildred O'Connor on 31 August 1918, in Elkhart, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Concord Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1942. He died on 13 January 1976, in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States.
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- Otto L Whitehead, "United States Census, 1930"
- Otto L Whitehead, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Otto Lewis Whitehead, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English whit ‘white’ + hed ‘head’ (Old English hwīt + hēafod), denoting a person with white or fair hair. Occasionally perhaps from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + hod ‘hood’ (Old English hwīt + hōd).
Irish: adopted by erroneous translation of Ó Ceanndubháin ‘descendant of the little black-headed one’ (see Canavan ), as if from Gaelic ceann ‘head’ + bán ‘white’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Weisshaupt (see Weishaupt ) or Weisskopf (see Weiskopf ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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