Brief Life History of Harvey Burk
When Harvey Burk Davis was born on 21 March 1886, in White Cliffs, Sevier, Arkansas, United States, his father, John D Davis, was 45 and his mother, Martha Ann "Mattie" Kitchens, was 37. He married Zella M Gross on 6 September 1913, in Little River, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Sevier, Arkansas, United States in 1900 and Cleveland Township, Little River, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 5 May 1948, in Ashdown, Little River, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Brownstown Cemetery, Brownstown, Sevier, Arkansas, United States.
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- Harvy B Davis in household of Martha A Davis, "United States Census, 1900"
- H B Davis, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Harvey Burk Davis, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890
Historical Boundaries 1890: Little River, Arkansas, United States
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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