Brief Life History of Lewis Demeritt
When Lewis Demeritt Garland was born on 5 September 1896, in Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Seth D. Garland, was 29 and his mother, Hannah Estella Hanson, was 33. He married Ebba O Sioberg on 1 October 1914, in Lakeport, Laconia, Belknap, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Sandwich, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States for about 20 years. He died on 15 July 1961, at the age of 64, and was buried in Center Sandwich, Sandwich, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States.
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- Lewis D Garland, "United States Census, 1920"
- Louis D Garland, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Lewis D Garland, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
1905 · Treaty of Portsmouth Signed
The Treaty of Portsmouth was signed on September 5, 1905 and officially brought a conclusion to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English gerlond, ger(e)land, garlond ‘metal chaplet, crown, coronet; wreath’, probably a nickname denoting a habitual wearer of such items, or a metonymic occupational name for a maker of them.
English: perhaps from the Old French personal name Gerland (ancient Germanic Garuland, probably from garw- ‘war-gear; prepared(ness)’ + land ‘land’; the first element of the French name may instead be from a name beginning with gēr ‘spear’).
English: topographic name from Middle English gor(e), gar(e) ‘triangular piece’ + lond ‘land’ (Old English gāra + land, lond), for someone who lived ‘(at the) triangular piece of land’. Compare Garfield .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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