Brief Life History of Olive Maria
When Olive Maria Peck was born on 15 February 1865, in Mesopotamia, Trumbull, Ohio, United States, her father, Sedley Clarendale Peck, was 42 and her mother, Mary Emeline Hazen, was 32. She married Lucius Albert Leavitt on 1 March 1890, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Compton Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1900 and Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1910. She died on 6 September 1914, in El Monte, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Olive Peck in household of Sedley C Peck, "United States Census, 1870"
- Olive M Leavett, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Olive Peek, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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World Events (8)
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Speake , with loss of initial S- (or perhaps vice versa).
English: variant of Peak .
English: perhaps occasionally a variant of Petch , itself a variant of Peach .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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