Brief Life History of Lydia
When Lydia Green was born on 26 May 1861, in Olean, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, her father, Oscar F Green, was 46 and her mother, Samantha Chase, was 39. She married Edward L Hopkins on 24 January 1881, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Angeles Abbey Memorial Park, Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States in 1935. She died on 3 September 1935, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Angeles Abbey Memorial Park, Compton, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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- Lydia Green in household of Samantha Green, "United States Census, 1880"
- Lydia Hektor, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- marriage record
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The Chicago Water Tower
The Chicago water tower was built out of Lemont limestone by William W. Boyington and was used for firefighting and also drawing clean water from Lake Michigan. The tower gained prominence after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Some believe that the tower was the only building to survive the Great Chicago Fire, but a few other buildings survived alongside the tower. The tower has become a symbol of old Chicago and how the city recovered from the fire. The tower has undergone only two renovations since 1913.
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: either a nickname for someone who was fond of dressing in this color (Old English grēne) or was young or immature, or who had played the part of the ‘Green Man’ in the May Day celebrations, or a topographic name for someone who lived near a village green (Middle English grene, a transferred use of the color term). This is one of the most common and widespread of English surnames. In North America it has assimilated cognates from other languages, notably German Grün (see Gruen ) and Dutch Groen ; compare 7 below. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English: alternatively, from a Middle English personal name Grene.
Irish: adopted for Ó hUainín ‘descendant of Uainín’, a personal name from a pet form of uaine ‘green’, see Honan .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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