Brief Life History of Benjamin Jay
When Benjamin Jay Eddy was born on 19 November 1878, in Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont, United States, his father, Jay Fisk Eddy, was 28 and his mother, Rosina S Baker, was 27. He lived in Mount Holly, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1930 and Wallingford, Rutland, Vermont, United States in 1940. He died on 21 August 1957, in Tinmouth, Rutland, Vermont, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Vermont, United States.
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- Benjamin Eddy in household of Rosanna Eddy, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Benjamin Jay Eddy - Published information: birth-name: Benjamin Jay Eddy
- Benjamin Jay Eddy, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
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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.
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
Name Meaning
Cornish: from the personal name Edy (pronounced ‘eedy’), a variant of Udy , from the Middle English personal name Ude, Udy, Latinized as Udo and Odo. It may represent Old French Eude (ancient Germanic Eudo, of uncertain etymology), whose usual Latin form is Eudo. This agrees with later evidence that the original pronunciation of the initial vowel of Udy was /y:/ (as in French tu), though in the 16th century it was sometimes unrounded to /i:/, spelled -e(e)-. It was later altered to Eddy.
English: variant of Eady .
English: perhaps from a shortened form of the Middle English personal name Edwy (Old English Ēadwīg, from ēad ‘prosperity, fortune’ + wīg ‘war’), which has not survived in that form as a surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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