Brief Life History of John Ernest
When John Ernest Shaw was born on 16 August 1877, in Middleton, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, John Shaw, was 22 and his mother, Elizabeth McDonald, was 21. He lived in Lycoming Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930 and Garden View, Old Lycoming Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1940. He died in 1957, at the age of 80, and was buried in Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- John E Shaw in household of Minnie E Judkins, "United States Census, 1910"
- John Ernest Shaw, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
- John Ernest Shaw, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1905 · The Movie Theater
The world’s first movie theater was located in Pittsburgh. It was referred to as a nickelodeon as at the time it only cost 5 cents to get in.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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