Sarah C. Sharp

Femaleabout 1869–1957

Brief Life History of Sarah C.

When Sarah C. Sharp was born about 1869, in Bridgewater Township, Somerset, New Jersey, United States, her father, John J. SHARP, was 38 and her mother, Gertrude Jane Amerman, was 38. She married William H. White about 1890, in New Jersey, United States. She lived in New Jersey, United States in 1870 and Plainfield, Union, New Jersey, United States in 1880. She died in 1957, in Scotch Plains Township, Union, New Jersey, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Scotch Plains Township, Union, New Jersey, United States.

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William H. White
1868–1917
Sarah C. Sharp
about 1869–1957
Marriage: about 1890

Sources (4)

  • Sarah C White in household of William H White, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Sarah S. Sharp - Government record: birth-name: Sarah S. Sharp
  • Sarah S Sharp in household of John J Sharp, "United States Census, 1870"

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  • Marriage
    about 1890New Jersey, United States
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    World Events (8)

    about 1869

    Age NaN

    Post office est. April 1, 1800 1869: Formed within Plainfield township 1871: Boundary with Piscataway township, Middlesex County 1878: Part from Plainfield township

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1894

    Age 25

    Mary Philbrook was the first woman in New Jersey to become a lawyer. She had applied for admission to the New Jersey Bar in 1894, but was rejected because the New Jersey Court stated that women were not vested with any right to be attorneys. Mary lobbied with the Jersey City Woman's Club for an update to the law, which was passed in 1895 and allowed women to become lawyers. Mary Philbrook was the first woman to be admitted after the law change.

    Name Meaning

    English and Scottish: nickname from Middle English sharp(e) ‘sharp, quick, smart, acute, keen-witted’ (Old English scearp).

    Irish: when not the English or Scots name in 1 above, an Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Ó Géaráin ‘descendant of Géarán’, a personal name based on a diminutive of géar ‘sharp’.

    Americanized form (translation into English) of German Scharf ‘sharp-cutting’ or of any of several other European names with similar meaning.

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

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