Brief Life History of George Alonzo
When George Alonzo Chadwick was born on 29 November 1890, in Park Valley, Box Elder, Utah, United States, his father, Abraham Chadwick Jr., was 46 and his mother, Mary Marinda Garner, was 40. He married Erma Bean on 19 December 1917, in La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in World in 1930 and Weiser, Washington, Idaho, United States in 1943. He died on 21 May 1967, in Payette, Idaho, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, La Grande, Union, Oregon, United States.
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- George A Chadwick, "United States 1950 Census"
- George A Chadwick, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- George A. Chadwick, "Oregon, County Marriages, 1851-1975"
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1893
New Zealand becomes world's first country to give women the vote.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
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1912 · The Girl Scouts
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Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from any of various places called Chadwick, in Lancashire, Warwickshire, and two in Worcestershire. One of the places in Worcestershire and the one in Warwickshire are named as ‘the dairy farm (Old English wīc) of Ceadel’. The other place in Worcestershire and the one in Lancashire are named as ‘Ceadda's dairy farm’. Ceadda was the name of a famous Anglo-Saxon bishop, Saint Chad. In Lancashire there was probably some confusion with another Lancashire name, Chaddock .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life Sketch of George Alonzo Chadwick
As dictated to his wife, Erma B. Chadwick, in 1968, and added upon by Erma B. Chadwick (who was anything but brief). I was born in Park Valley, Box Elder County, Utah, as the twelfth child and the l …
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