When Morse Marshall Wells was born on 2 May 1899, in Peoria, Illinois, United States, his father, Melville Baker Wells, was 29 and his mother, Mary Frances Hudson, was 28. He married Ruth Claire Osborne on 30 December 1924, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Lakewood, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1919. He died on 18 June 1965, in Glendale, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Sunland Memorial Park, Sun City, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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Historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River. It reverses the direction of the Chicago River, which now flows out of Lake Michigan rather than into it. It is one of two canals that helps navigation to ships traveling between the Great Lakes Waterway and the Mississippi River system.
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English: habitational name from Wells next the Sea (Norfolk) or Wells (Somerset), both named with the plural of Old English wella ‘spring, stream’, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a group of springs or streams.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Dupuis ‘from the well’.
History: One of numerous early immigrants from England bearing this name was Thomas Welles, governor of colonial CT, who was in Hartford, CT, by 1636.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesMorse Wells was born in Illinois, a son of Melville Baker Wells 1870–1904 and Mary Frances Hudson 1870–1938. He had a sister Mary Hudson 1902–1986. He was a graduate of Armour Institute of Technology …
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