Brief Life History of William Sherman
When William Sherman Powell was born on 10 July 1864, in Vernon, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Jesse Mercer Powell, was 28 and his mother, Mahala Cox, was 28. He married Nora Adelia Fish on 27 March 1893, in Monroe, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Grand Rapids, Wood, Wisconsin, United States in 1905 and Mishicot, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, United States in 1930. He died on 22 November 1930, in Sparta, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Sparta, Monroe, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Wm S Powell in household of Ray E Gerhard, "United States Census, 1930"
- Legacy NFS Source: William S. Powell - Published information: birth: about 1871; Wisconsin, United States
- William S. Powell, "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
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.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Hywel ‘son of Hywel’, a personal name meaning ‘eminent’ (see Howell ).
Irish: mainly of Welsh origin as in 1 above, but sometimes a surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Phóil ‘son of the servant of Saint Paul’ (see Guilfoyle ).
English: variant of Paul or Poole .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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