Brief Life History of William Carlos
When William Carlos Williams was born on 17 September 1883, in Rutherford, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, his father, William George Williams, was 30 and his mother, Raquel Helene Hoheb, was 36. He married Florence Hilda Herman in 1912. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in United States for about 14 years. He died on 4 March 1963, in Rutherford, Bergen, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Lyndhurst Township, Bergen, New Jersey, United States.
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- William C Williams, "United States 1950 Census"
- Williams, "New Jersey Births and Christenings, 1660-1980"
- William Carlos Williams, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1894
Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English: variant of William , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is also common in Wales. In North America, this surname has also absorbed some cognates from other languages, such as Dutch Willems . Williams is the third most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans.
History: This surname was brought to North America from southern England and Wales independently by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. Roger Williams, born in London in 1603, came to MA in 1630, but the clergyman was banished from the colony for his criticism of the Puritan government; he fled to RI and founded Providence.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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