When John James Long was born on 8 June 1848, in Douglas, Lane, Oregon, United States, his father, John Jackson Long, was 38 and his mother, Minerva Jane Smith, was 19. He married Sarah A Applegate on 7 July 1873, in Douglas, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Calapooia Election Precinct, Douglas, Oregon, United States in 1900 and Yoncalla, Douglas, Oregon, United States for about 10 years. He died on 27 March 1926, in Roseburg, Douglas, Oregon, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Applegate Family Cemetery, Douglas, Oregon, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1849: Benton, Oregon Territory, United States; 1851: Umpqua, Oregon Territory, United States; 1859: Umpqua, Oregon, United States; 1863: Douglas, Oregon, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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