Samuel Allen Field

Brief Life History of Samuel Allen

When Samuel Allen Field was born about 1850, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Isaac Field, was 41 and his mother, Mary White Allen, was 40. He married Elizabeth R. Smedley on 23 September 1874, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860 and Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 20 December 1884, in Media, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 35.

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Samuel Allen Field
about 1850–1884
Elizabeth R. Smedley
about 1850–1885
Marriage: 23 September 1874
John Ackley Field
1875–1951
Mary W. Field
1879–1964

Sources (2)

  • Samuel A. Feild, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Samuel Field in household of Isaac Field, "United States Census, 1860"

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1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1863 · Battle of Gettysburg

The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.

1868 · Impeach the President!

Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.

Name Meaning

English and Irish: habitational name, probably from Field, in Leigh, Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English feld ‘flat open country’. In the late 12th century one of Henry II's warrior knights took the surname to Ireland, where it often took the semi-Norman French form de la Feld. From the 15th century onward it was increasingly reduced to Field and gave its name to Fieldstown, the family's chief seat near Dublin. A branch of the Anglo-Irish family that migrated back to England in the 14th century retained the Normanized form as Delafield .

English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable field or an area of open country (Middle English feld).

Irish: Anglicized form of Feeley , through similarity of sound, and of Maghery by translation (chiefly in Armagh), from Gaelic An Mhachaire ‘of the field’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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