Sarah A. Stocks was born in February 1852, in New York, United States as the daughter of Rebecca Buttrey. She married Orman W. Brush on 10 April 1872, in Buena Vista, Richland, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Cottage Grove, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Eugene, Lane, Oregon, United States in 1920. She died on 18 November 1924, in Springfield, Lane, Oregon, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Springfield, Lane, Oregon, United States.
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A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim that the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
Historical Boundaries - 1855: Lane, Oregon Territory, United States 1859: Lane, Oregon, United States
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
German: variant of Stock .
English (Yorkshire): variant of Stock with plural or post-medieval excrescent -s. In the plural form, the surname may also be topographic, for someone who lived near tree stumps, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Stocks in Thurstonland (Yorkshire). It may also denote someone who lived by, or operated, the obsolete instrument of punishment known as the stocks (Middle English stokkes) owing to its construction from two wooden planks set edgewise one over the other.
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