Brief Life History of Charles Edward
When Charles Edward Brackett was born on 13 March 1847, in Durham, Strafford, New Hampshire, United States, his father, David Brackett, was 24 and his mother, Mary Elisabeth Beach Francis, was 18. He married Angie K Silloway on 29 August 1868. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Lowell, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 55 years.
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- Chas E Bracket, "United States Census, 1870"
- Chas. Brackett, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Charles Brackett in entry for Alexander Johnson, "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920"
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1848 · Slavery is Abolished
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): nickname from Old French brachet, a diminutive of brach ‘hound which hunts by scent’ (see Brack 4). The word was also used as a term of abuse.
History: Captain Richard Brackett (1610–c. 1691) came to Boston, MA, c. 1629, and moved to Braintree, MA, in 1641.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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