When James Marshall Updegraff was born about 1856, in Woodward Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, George Updegraff, was 30 and his mother, Deborah Jane Paulhamus, was 28. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Angeline Bucher. He lived in Fairfield Township, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. He died about 1933, in Montoursville, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Williamsport, Lycoming, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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.
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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