Brief Life History of Leland Emerson
When Leland Emerson Artress was born on 19 December 1902, in Grafton, Lorain, Ohio, United States, his father, Louis Thomas Artress, was 24 and his mother, Minnie May Hopkins, was 24. He married Beatrice M Armstrong on 10 March 1924, in Crawford, Ohio, United States. He lived in Euclid, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States in 1940 and Mentor Township, Lake, Ohio, United States in 1979. He died on 10 November 1979, in Kirtland Township, Lake, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Mentor Municipal Cemetery, Mentor, Lake, Ohio, United States.
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- Leland Artrers in household of Clara J Cole, "United States Census, 1910"
- Lealan E. Artress, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
- Leland E Artress, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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World Events (8)
1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
1913 · Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art was founded as a trust from Hinman Hurlbut, John Huntington, and Horace Kelley. It is to be known as the fourth-wealthiest art museum in the United States. The museum opened its doors to the public on June 6, 1916, and is free to the public to come and enjoy the diverse collections inside. Today the museum can be found as the center piece of Wade Park and both are on the National Register of Historic Places.
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
Mainly U.S.: transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name for someone who lived by a patch of fallow land, from Middle English lay, ley ‘fallow’ + land ‘land’. The surname is well established in the United States. It was borne by the humorous writer Charles Leland ( 1824–1903 ), author of The Breitmann Ballads, and it is also the name of a city in Mississippi.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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