Brief Life History of Melvin Ohio
When Melvin Ohio Reed was born on 22 February 1876, in Indiana, United States, his father, Robert Stuart Reed, was 64 and his mother, Amelia D Argerbright, was 32. He married Emeline Leckrone in 1899, in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Lake Township, Kosciusko, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Washington Township, Elkhart, Indiana, United States in 1910. He died on 7 March 1960, in Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Rice Cemetery, Elkhart, Elkhart, Indiana, United States.
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- Melvin O Reed, "United States Census, 1910"
- Melvin, "Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1940"
- Melvin Ohio Reed, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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.
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 and Scottish: nickname from Middle English and Older Scots red(e) ‘red’, no doubt denoting someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
English: from Middle English ride, rede, rude (Old English rīed, rēod, rȳd) ‘clearing’. The surname may be topographic for someone who lived in or near a clearing, or habitational, for someone who lived at one of a number of places so named, including Rede Court in Strood (Kent), Rides in Eastchurch (Kent), Ride Way in Ewhurst (Surrey), and Reed Farm in Wadhurst (Sussex). The word is particularly common in the southeastern counties of England, from Kent to the Isle of Wight. See also Rider and Reader .
English: habitational name from Read (Lancashire), Reed (Hertfordshire), or Rede (Suffolk). The Lancashire placename derives from Old English rǣge ‘roe, female roe deer’ + hēafod ‘head’. The Hertfordshire placename derives from Old English rȳhth ‘rough piece of ground’. The etymology of the Suffolk placename is uncertain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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