When Marcus M Peterson was born on 28 April 1849, in Whiteford Township, Monroe, Michigan, United States, his father, Francis Peterson, was 44 and his mother, Martha Phelps, was 38. He married Joanna Fitzgerald on 29 January 1882, in Lucas, Ohio, United States. He lived in Sylvania, Lucas, Ohio, United States for about 10 years and Springfield Township, Lucas, Ohio, United States in 1900. He died on 16 July 1911, in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Saint Joseph Cemetery, Sylvania, Lucas, Ohio, United States.
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Earliest dated memorial marker: Mary A Hogan BIRTH 29 Oct 1855 DEATH 6 Nov 1855 (aged 8 days) BURIAL Saint Joseph Cemetery Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio, USA MEMORIAL ID 154886819
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
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