Brief Life History of Emeline
When Emeline Manville was born on 17 March 1838, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, her father, Daniel Manvel, was 31 and her mother, Emeline E. Wright, was 27. She died on 7 December 1860, at the age of 22.
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Name Meaning
English (Sussex and Lancashire): variant of Mandeville .
Altered form of Mainville 1, a surname of Swiss French origin (see Miville ).
French: variant of Menville, a habitational name from Menville in Haute-Garonne, and also of Mainville 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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