Brief Life History of Ewell Fenton
When Ewell Fenton Patterson was born on 26 May 1899, in Crockett, Tennessee, United States, his father, Pled Gibson Patterson, was 22 and his mother, Effie Kenner, was 21. He lived in Santa Monica Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940 and Umatilla, Umatilla, Oregon, United States in 1950. His occupation is listed as used car salesman a-z motors in Lynwood, Los Angeles, California, United States. He died on 29 June 1963, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 64.
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- Ewell V Patterson, "United States Census, 1940"
- Ewell Patterson, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Ewell Fenton Patterson, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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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
Scottish and northern English: variant of Patrickson ‘son of Patrick ’, which was either shortened to Patrison and metathesized to Patterson, or shortened from Paterickson to Patterson.
Irish: in Ulster, this name is of English or Scottish origin, but in County Galway, it was also taken by bearers of the Gaelic name Ó Caisín ‘descendant of the little curly-headed one’ (from Gaelic casín ‘curly’), which is usually Anglicized as Cussane. In addition to the confusion between Irish Gaelic casín ‘curly’ and cosán ‘path’, there has also been an erroneous assumption that the English name Patterson is somehow derived from the English word path.
English: 19th-century variant of Patteson, a shortened form of Pattinson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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