When Clinton Souder Cresse was born on 16 September 1848, in Middle Township, Cape May, New Jersey, United States, his father, Israel Cresse, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Sloan, was 30. He married Narcissa Ermina Stone on 4 October 1870, in Middle Township, Cape May, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Mayville, Middle Township, Cape May, New Jersey, United States in 1915 and Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1930. He died on 29 January 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Altadena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1849: Middle Township, Cape May, New Jersey
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Some characteristic forenames: German Gerhard, Herta, Kurt, Mathias, Wolfgang.
German: variant of Kress .
Germanized form of Slovenian Krese: nickname from a derivative of kresiti ‘to make bonfire’ or kres ‘bonfire’, or from a derivative of kresati ‘to strike fire’. In part, Kresse is a Gottscheerish (i.e. Gottschee German) surname, originating from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola, Slovenia (see Kocevar ).
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