Brief Life History of Ada Baker
When Ada Baker LeFevre was born on 11 June 1889, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Martin Lefever, was 40 and her mother, Anna Baker, was 35. She lived in Manheim Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. She died on 22 March 1905, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 15, and was buried in Landis Valley, Manheim Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Ada B Lefever in household of John Lefever, "United States Census, 1900"
- Ada B. LeFevre, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (7)
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
1890 · Woman's Suffrage
An organization formed in favor of women's suffrages. By combining the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association, the NAWSA eventually increased in membership up to two million people. It is still one of the largest voluntary organizations in the nation today and held a major role in passing the Nineteenth Amendment.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: French/Haitian Andre, Emile, Jacques, Joffre, Luc, Adrien, Antoine, Armand, Camille, Eunide, Francois, Germaine.
French and Walloon (Lefèvre): occupational name for a blacksmith or ironworker, Old French fevre, with fused masculine definite article le. One of the most common surnames in France from an early date, coined before the French word for smith, fèvre (from Latin faber ‘maker’), was replaced by forgeron. This surname was also brought to England (in the 16th century by Protestant Walloons and later reinforced by Huguenots from France). It is also established in the Flemish part of Belgium and in Haiti. See also Lefebvre , compare Faver , Lafaver , Lafever , Lefever , and Leffew .
History: This surname is listed (in the form Le Fèvre) in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors and also in the similar register of the Huguenot Society of America (in the form Le Fevre).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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