When Sarah Frances Kilgore was born on 15 May 1845, in Milton, Milton Township, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, Freeland Kilgore, was 29 and her mother, Susan Grant, was 19. She married Jarvis C. Billings on 27 March 1861, in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States in 1860 and Maine, United States in 1870. She died in 1927, in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."
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Irish (Tyrone and Derry): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Gheáirr ‘son of the short lad’, from the adjective geárr ‘short’. In Scotland there has been some confusion with Kilgour .
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