Brief Life History of Elvah Holly
When Elvah Holly Waite was born on 30 June 1876, in Alexander, Alexander, Genesee, New York, United States, his father, Welcome Waite, was 46 and his mother, Sarah Ann Holly, was 41. He married Magdalena Augusta Nevinger on 21 December 1898, in Warsaw, Warsaw, Wyoming, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Orangeville, Wyoming, New York, United States for about 20 years and Perry, Perry, Wyoming, New York, United States in 1910. He died on 3 June 1948, in Alexander, Genesee, New York, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Attica, Wyoming, New York, United States.
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- Elvah H Waite, "United States Census, 1930"
- Elvah Waite, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- Edvah Holly Waite, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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 (of Norman origin): occupational name for a watchman, either in a town or castle, from Anglo-Norman French waite ‘watchman, member of the watch’ (of ancient Germanic origin; compare Wachter ). In the Middle Ages the town waits typically combined the functions of watchmen and musicians through being trumpeters or pipers. There may also have been some late confusion with White or Wheat .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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