Brief Life History of Leonidas Otto
When Leonidas Otto Fowler was born on 14 November 1877, in Mason, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Fowler, was 42 and his mother, Emmeline Clarkson Gardner, was 43. He married Dora C Rickard in 1904, in Mason, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 17 May 1957, in West Virginia, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rickard Cemetery, West Columbia, Mason, West Virginia, United States.
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- Leonidas Fowler, "United States Census, 1900"
- Leonidas O Fowler, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Leonidas Otto Fowler, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a fowler, a hunter or trapper of wild birds (a common medieval occupation), from Middle English fogheler, fugheler (Old English fugelere, a derivative of fugol ‘bird’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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