Brief Life History of William Lee
When William Lee Blackwell was born on 2 September 1881, in Jamestown, Tuolumne, California, United States, his father, Marion Jefferson Blackwell, was 34 and his mother, Nancy Anna Mayes, was 35. He married Maud Mary Bath on 6 June 1909, in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Carson City, Ormsby, Nevada, United States in 1910 and Simpson, Lyon, Nevada, United States for about 10 years. He died on 30 November 1963, in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, United States, at the age of 82.
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- William Blackwell, "United States Census, 1910"
- William L Blackwell, "Nevada County Marriages, 1862-1993"
- William Lee Blackwell, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
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.
1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station
Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.
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.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Blackwell, for example in Cumbria, Derbyshire, County Durham, Warwickshire, Somerset, Devon, Sussex, and Worcestershire, named in Old English frp blæc ‘black, dark’ + wæll(a), well(a) ‘spring, stream’. Alternatively, it may be a topographic name for someone who lived by the ‘dark well or stream’, Middle English blak + wel(le).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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