Brief Life History of Andrew Wesley
When Andrew Wesley Ely was born on 27 December 1903, in Butler Township, Otter Tail, Minnesota, United States, his father, Walter Byron Ely, was 36 and his mother, Annie Lucinda Johnson, was 21. He married Allie Talitha Dickerson on 23 February 1957. He lived in Menahga, Wadena, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and Spruce Grove Township, Becker, Minnesota, United States in 1930. He died on 4 March 1988, in Frazee, Becker, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Menahga, Wadena, Minnesota, United States.
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- Wesley A Ely, "United States Census, 1930"
- Andrew Wesley Ely, "Minnesota, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"
- Andrew Wesley Ely, "Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001"
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1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
1906 · The End of Capital Punishment
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Ely, a cathedral city on an island in the fens north of Cambridge, so named from Old English ǣl ‘eel’ + gē ‘district’.
English, French, and Breton (Finistère): from the Middle English, Old French personal name Elie, Hely (Elijah in the King James Bible); see Ellis and Elias .
English: variant of Healey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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