Brief Life History of Joseph Edward
When Joseph Edward Canfield was born on 26 November 1898, in Jackson, Iowa, United States, his father, James M Canfield, was 35 and his mother, Sarah Jane Willis, was 22. He had at least 1 daughter with Helen D Canfield. He lived in American Judicial Township, Sacramento, California, United States in 1940 and Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States in 1950. He registered for military service in 1920. He died on 30 July 1963, in Sacramento, California, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in West Point, Lee, Iowa, United States.
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- Joseph E Canfield, "United States 1950 Census"
- Joseph Edward Canfield, "Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935"
- Joseph E Canfield, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
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World Events (8)
1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · Great San Francisco Earthquake
A 7.8 magnitude earthquake shook San Francisco for approximately 60 seconds on April 18, 1906. A 1906 report by US Army Relief Operations recorded the death toll for San Francisco and surrounding areas at 664. Later reports record the number at over 3,000 deaths. An estimated 225,000 people were left homeless from the widespread destructuction as 80% of the city was destroyed.
1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.
Name Meaning
English:
habitational name from Great or Little Canfield in Essex, named with the Old English personal name Cana (see Cane 2) + feld ‘open country’.
in some cases the surname may be of Norman origin, a habitational name from Canville-les-Deux-Églises in Seine-Maritime (France).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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