Brief Life History of Josephine
When Josephine Cleveland was born on 23 February 1871, in Ottumwa, Wapello, Iowa, United States, her father, Alexander Dennison Cleveland, was 38 and her mother, Amanda Jane Spiver, was 36. She married Henry C. Agnew on 18 July 1894, in Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Macomb Township, McDonough, Illinois, United States in 1900. She died on 4 October 1929, in Seattle, King, Washington, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Evergreen Washelli Memorial Park, Seattle, King, Washington, United States.
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- Josephine Agnew in household of Clay Agnew, "United States Census, 1900"
- Josephine Cleveland, "Washington, County Birth Registers, 1873-1965"
- Josephine Agnew, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
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World Events (8)
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
1877 · The First Workers Strike
The country was in great economic distress in mid-1877, which caused many workers of the Railroad to come together and began the first national strike in the United States. Crowds gathered in Chicago in extreme number to be a part of the strike which was later named the Great Railroad Strike. Shortly after the strike began, the battle was fought between the authorities and many of the strikers. The conflict escalated to violence and quickly each side turned bloody.
1889 · Washington Becomes a State
On November 11, 1889, Washington Territory became Washington State the 42nd state to enter the Union. The state was named in honor of George Washington.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of several places in Devon, Essex, or the North Yorkshire, formed from the genitive plural (clifa) of Old English clif ‘bank, slope’ + land ‘land’.
Americanized form (and a rare Norwegian variant) of Norwegian Kleveland or its variant Kleiveland, and also of Kleven or its variant Kleiven.
History: Grover Cleveland (1837–1908), 22nd and 24th president of the US, was the fifth child of a country Presbyterian clergyman. His father, Richard Falley Cleveland, a graduate of Yale College and of the theological seminary at Princeton, was descended from Moses Cleaveland who arrived in MA in 1635.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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