Brief Life History of Silas Leavitt
When Silas Leavitt Fish was born on 17 January 1880, in Snowflake, Apache, Arizona, United States, his father, Joseph Fish, was 39 and his mother, Adelaide Margaret Smith, was 22. He married Margaret Miller on 7 June 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States for about 40 years. He died on 25 March 1976, in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 96, and was buried in R V Mike Ramsay Memorial Cemetery, Snowflake, Navajo, Arizona, United States.
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- Silas L Fish, "United States 1950 Census"
- Silas L. Fish en el registro de Margaret Fish, "Arizona, Birth Certificates and Indexes, 1855-1930"
- Silas L Fish, "Arizona, County Marriages, 1871-1964"
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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.
1899
Germany annexes Western Samoa, the U.S. takes over eastern Samoa and Britain withdraws its claim to the islands in accordance with treaty between Germany, Britain and the U.S.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English fish, fisch, fisk ‘fish’ (Old English fisc, Old Norse fiskr), a metonymic occupational name for a fisherman or fish seller, or a nickname for someone thought to resemble a fish.
Americanized form of German Fisch , and a variant of the same Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname. The surname of Jewish and German origin is also found in Britain.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Poisson ‘fish’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Silas L. Fish
Silas L. Fish Collection (1899) • Fish, Silas Leavitt, 1880-1976 Abstract Educator and local Mormon Church leader in Snowflake, Arizona. Correspondence, histories, poems, essays, speeches, newspaper …
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