When Victoria L. Foshay was born on 18 April 1843, in Carmel, Putnam, New York, United States, her father, John W. Foshay, was 28 and her mother, Susan Russell, was 25. She married Millard M Relyea about 1893, in New York, United States. She lived in Yonkers, Westchester, New York, United States in 1860 and Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States in 1910. She died on 20 February 1926, in Carmel, Putnam, New York, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Raymond Hill Cemetery, Carmel, Putnam, New York, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Americanized form of Breton (mainly Côtes-d'Armor) Le Faucheur: occupational name from French faucheur ‘mower, reaper’, with the French masculine definite article le, probably used as a translation into French of the Breton cognates, such as Le Falher, from falc'her, a word which is like the French one ultimately derived from Latin falx ‘sickle, scythe’. Compare Forsha , Forshay , Forshee , and Forshey .
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