Brief Life History of Robert Lee
When Robert Lee Davis was born on 20 October 1883, in Viola, Latah, Idaho, United States, his father, Sidney Tebbs Davis, was 41 and his mother, Sarah Polk Miller, was 33. He married Susan Elizabeth Ledbetter on 20 September 1908, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Walla Walla, Walla Walla, Washington, United States in 1920 and Spokane City, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 1 February 1958, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Terrace, Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States.
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- Robert L Davis in household of Harrison J Ledbetter, "United States Census, 1910"
- Robert L Davis, "Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008"
- Robert Lee Davis, "Washington, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1890
Idaho is the 43rd state.
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .
History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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