Brief Life History of William Wilson
When William Wilson Edwards was born on 1 January 1873, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Edward Edwards, was 31 and his mother, Mary Ann Polly Brown, was 20. He lived in School District 13, Carter, Montana, United States in 1935 and School District 1 Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States in 1940. He died on 18 April 1949, in Solano, California, United States, at the age of 76.
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- Edwards, "United States Census, 1940"
- William Wilson Edwards, "California, Death Index, 1940-1997"
- William Edwards in entry for Mr James E Edwards, "Utah, Obituaries from Utah Newspapers, 1850-2005"
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World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1889
Weber comes from John Henry Weber, an early fur trader. The university opened for students on January 7, 1889. By the late 1920's, the college was in financial difficulty and the Utah Legislature passed a law allowing the purchase of both Weber College and Snow College from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 1954 the college moved from downtown Ogden the southeast bench area of the city where it resides currently.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: variant of Edward , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
History: One of the earliest American bearers of this very common English surname was William Edwards, the son of Rev. Richard Edwards, a London clergyman in the age of Elizabeth I, who came to New England c. 1640. His descendant Jonathan (1703–58), of East Windsor, CT, was a prominent Congregational clergyman whose New England theology led to the first Great Awakening, a great religious revival.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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