When Hester Ann Beedy was born on 29 October 1861, in Peotone, Will, Illinois, United States, her father, Nathan Southmaid Beedy, was 26 and her mother, Phoebe Goodspeed, was 23. She married Charles F Goodspeed on 24 October 1883, in Peotone, Will, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States in 1930 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1940. She died on 25 August 1943, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Scottish: variant of Beedie, itself a variant of Beatty .
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