When Nathaniel Henry Felton was born on 31 October 1861, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William Henry Felton, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Jane Sperry, was 35. He married Inez C. Lindley in 1890. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States for about 70 years. He died in 1950, at the age of 89, and was buried in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Derby Wharf Light was one the twin lighthouses that stood at either end of the Derby Wharf. It were used mainly to help pick up interest in the area. In 1914, when a major fire broke out in Salem flames burned the lighthouse to the ground. It was then rebuilt and later turned over to the National Park Services.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English: habitational name from any of various places so called. Most of them, including those in Herefordshire, Shropshire, and Somerset (Winford), are named from Old English feld ‘pasture, open country’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’. Another place of the same name in Somerset, also known as Whitchurch, has as its first element Old English filethe ‘hay’. Felton Hill in Northumberland is named with the Old English personal name Fygla (a derivative of fugol ‘bird’; compare Fowle ).
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