When Frances Melson was born in September 1856, in Indiana, United States, her father, Joseph W. Melson, was 32 and her mother, Margaret McCabe, was 24. She married Francis Marion BOWELL in 1882. She lived in La Porte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States in 1910 and Kankakee, Johnson Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States in 1920.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1866: La Porte, Indiana, United States
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English (mainly Lincolnshire):
patronymic from the Middle English male personal name Mile, Miles (see Miles ) or metronymic from the Middle English female personal name Mill (see Mill 2) + -son.
perhaps occasionally a metronymic from a Middle English survival of the Old English female personal name Milde (‘mild, meek, gentle’) + -son.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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