Brief Life History of Jesse Charles
When Jesse Charles Legg was born in November 1890, in Ontario, Canada, his father, Charles Legg, was 37 and his mother, Bessie Ann Clark, was 29. He married Mabel Valeria Wismer on 12 August 1914, in Elgin, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Niagara Falls, Niagara, New York, United States in 1916 and lived in Middlesex, Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1911.
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- Jesse C. Legg in household of Chas Legg, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Jesse Charles Degg, "Ontario Births, 1869-1912"
- Jesse Charles Legg, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
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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.
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English (mainly West Country): nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the leg, from Middle English legg ‘leg’ (Old Norse leggr).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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