When John Oliver Updegraff was born on 29 October 1863, in Woodward Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Updegraff, was 36 and his mother, Deborah Jane Paulhamus, was 34. He married Fannie Steinhelper about 1892, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Williamsport, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. He died on 3 March 1917, in Lock Haven, Clinton, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Dunnstown Cemetery, Dunnstown, Woodward Township, Clinton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Coming out of an economic crisis, everyone was worried when cuts started happening in the railroad. They went on what would the great railroad strike of 1877.
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.
Americanized form of Dutch Op de Graef or Op den Graef: topographic name for someone who lived by a channel or watercourse, from Dutch op ‘beside’ + de ‘the’ + graf (Middle Dutch grave) ‘stream, channel, watercourse’. The surname Op de(n) Graef, which was brought to the US from Germany, is no longer found in the Netherlands or Germany. Compare Updegrove , Uptegrove , and Upthegrove .
History: Two brothers, Derick and Abraham Updegraff (their surnames are recorded in various forms), were among the thirteen German families from Krefeld who in 1683 founded the first German-speaking settlement on American soil, Germantown, PA, near Philadelphia. Their forebears had emigrated to Germany from the Netherlands two generations before.
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