Brief Life History of Eva
When Eva Gow was born in 1903, in Bellevue, Sarpy, Nebraska, United States, her father, James Henry Gow Sr., was 47 and her mother, Emma Hike, was 39. She died in 1903, in her hometown, at the age of 0.
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1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor
A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
Name Meaning
Scottish: occupational name from Gaelic gobha ‘smith’, or a shortened form of McGow from Mac Gobhann and Mac a' Ghobhainn, ‘son of the smith’.
Irish: from Mac an Ghobha, a variant of Mac an Ghabhann ‘son of the smith’, see Gowan and McGowan . Smith is used as a synonym for Gow in counties Cavan and Meath.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surnames 伍 (see Wu 2) and 高 (see Gao 1).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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