Brief Life History of John Henry Bowen
When John Henry Bowen Davis was born on 9 August 1852, in Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, Wales, United Kingdom, his father, Titus Lazarus Davis, was 46 and his mother, Mary Gwenllian Bowen, was 33. He married Martha Williams on 29 September 1887, in Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870. He died on 5 May 1928, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- John Davis in household of Thimothy Davis, "United States Census, 1870"
- John Henry Davies, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
- John H. Davis, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1859 · Logan is Founded
"\""During the end of April, David Reese and his company settled the land north of the Logan River. That area was the second permanent settlement in Cache Valley and the future location of Logan. The city's boundary was drawn by Logan's first bishop, Jesse W. Fox, a government engineer. The name \""\""Logan\""\"" comes from a trapper that used to frequent the area before the pioneers came to the valley.\"""
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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