Brief Life History of Lewis Otto
When Lewis Otto Keith was born on 31 December 1900, in Steeves Settlement, Salisbury, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, Benjamin H Keith, was 48 and his mother, Ginevra Vinetta Mitton, was 21. He immigrated to Vanceboro, Washington, Maine, United States in 1919 and lived in Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada for about 10 years. He died on 18 June 1981, in Sarasota, Florida, United States, at the age of 80.
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- Lewis O Keith in household of Ginevra V Keith, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Lewis Otto Keith, "Find A Grave Index"
- Louis Otto Keith, "Maine, Alien Arrivals, 1906-1953"
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1901 · Assassination of Mckinley
President William McKinley was shot at the Temple of Music, in the Pan-American Exposition, while shaking hands with the public. Leon Czolgosz shot him twice in the abdomen because he thought it was his duty to do so. McKinley died after eight days of watch and care. He was the third American president to be assassinated. After his death, Congress passed legislation to officially make the Secret Service and gave them responsibility for protecting the President at all times.
1921
Historical Boundaries: 1921: Sarasota, Florida, United States
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from the lands of Keith in East Lothian. The placename is derived from British Celtic cait- ‘wood’. In the 17th century numerous bearers of this name settled in Ulster.
German: nickname from Middle High German kīt ‘sprout, offspring’.
History: George Keith (c. 1638–1716), born at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, came to NJ in or before 1685. In 1689 he settled in Philadelphia, where he became headmaster of the school now called the William Penn Charter School. He came into sharp collision with the Quaker leaders in PA and formed a separatist party known as the Christian Quakers, popularly known as ‘Keithians’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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