Brief Life History of Mary Jane
When Mary Jane Mason was born on 23 September 1855, in Wiota, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, her father, John Mason, was 47 and her mother, Nancy Grugan Mason, was 41. She married William Blanchard on 19 February 1882, in Wiota, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States. She lived in Blanchard, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States for about 10 years. She died on 29 May 1928, in Blanchardville, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Blanchardville, Lafayette, Wisconsin, United States.
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- Mary Blanchard in household of William Blanchard, "United States Census, 1910"
- Legacy NFS Source: Mary J Mason - Government record: birth-name: Mary Jane Mason
- Mary Jane Mason, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English masoun ‘mason, stone worker, builder in stone’ (Old Central French maçon, masson). A Middle English form machun (derived from Old French machun) gives rise to Machin and its variants. See also Mayson . Stonemasonry was a hugely important craft in the Middle Ages.
Italian (Veneto): variant of Masone .
Altered form of French Masson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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