Brief Life History of Charles Leland
When Charles Leland Francis was born on 12 May 1898, in California, United States, his father, Warren Harrison Francis, was 22 and his mother, Charlotte Hannah Wood, was 16. He married Marguerite Claudia Woodard on 30 June 1921, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Turlock, Stanislaus, California, United States in 1910 and Whittier, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 31 October 1976, in Orange, California, United States, at the age of 78.
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- Charles L Francis in household of Warren H Francis, "United States Census, 1910"
- Charles L Francis, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Charles Leland Francis, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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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.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English: from the Old French personal name Franceis, modern French François, from Latin Franciscus, originally ‘Frank’, though later used to denote a Frenchman. The personal name owed much of its popularity during the Middle Ages to the fame of Saint Francis of Assisi (1181–1226), whose baptismal name was actually Giovanni but who was nicknamed Francisco because his father was absent in France at the time of his birth. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Francesco and Polish, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian Franc , and also their derivatives, e.g. Croatian Francišković (see Francisco 4).
English: ethnic name from the Old French adjective Franceis ‘French’ (see 1 above).
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, or an adoption of the non-Jewish surname.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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