Brief Life History of Ellen Marion
When Ellen Marion Greenwood was born on 1 December 1842, in Industry, Franklin, Maine, United States, her father, Thaddeus Greenwood, was 48 and her mother, Melinda Caldwell, was 40. She married Peter West Merry on 1 January 1863. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 1 April 1914, in Farmington, Franklin, Maine, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Riverside, Vassalboro, Kennebec, Maine, United States.
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- Ellen M Greenwood in household of Thaddeus Greenwood, "United States Census, 1860"
- Ellen Marion Greenwood in entry for Unknown and Unknown, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
- Ellen Greenwood in household of Thaddeus Greenwood, "United States Census, 1850"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1851 · First State to Attempt Prohibition
In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for "medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated "purchaser", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from Greenwood Lee in Heptonstall (Yorkshire), from Middle English grene ‘green’ + wode ‘wood’.
Americanized form (translation into English) of Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünholz, an ornamental compound of German grün ‘green’ + Holz ‘wood’, and probably also of the same German surname.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Grünwald (see Grunwald ), and of French Boisvert .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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