Brief Life History of Sidney Ralph
When Sidney Ralph Fraser was born on 31 August 1869, in Blue Earth, Faribault, Minnesota, United States, his father, Abram Malcom Fraser, was 48 and his mother, Emiline Montee, was 46. He married Florence Estelle Buck in 1893, in Red Wing, Goodhue, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Belgrade Township, Nicollet, Minnesota, United States in 1900 and Tacoma Election Precinct, Pierce, Washington, United States in 1940. He died on 21 November 1952, in Tacoma, Pierce, Washington, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Lakewood, Pierce, Washington, United States.
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- Sydney R Fraser, "United States 1950 Census"
- Sidney R Fraser, "Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949"
- Sidney Ralph Fraser, "Find A Grave Index"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1884 · Iron Mining starts in Minnesota
After discovering iron ore in the Vermilion Range in North-East of Minnesota, iron mining companies began to come to the area and caused an economic boom to the area of Duluth and to the state as a whole.
1893 · The Minnesota State Flag
The Flag of Minnesota was adopted on August 2 and consists of scenes from the seal of Minnesota. The flag has been modified over the years to be easier to manufacture.
Name Meaning
Scottish: apparently a nickname from Anglo-Norman French fraser(e), fresere ‘strawberry plant’. Fresel and Frisel, from Anglo-Norman French fresel ‘strawberry’, are early variants of the Fraser surname, the modern Gaelicized form of which is Friseal. See Frizzell . The crest on the Scottish family's coat of arms takes the form of a strawberry plant, but its antiquity is unknown. Claims of a habitational derivation, in particular from a place called la Frézelière in Anjou (France), are attractive but they lack verifiable evidence.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.
History: There are two clans Fraser in Scotland, with common ancestry going back to Simon Fraser of Keith in East Lothian, who lived in the 12th century. One of these clans has its seat at Philorth Castle (subsequently re-named Cairnbulg) on the northeast coast of Scotland. Sir Alexander Fraser, 8th laird of Philorth (c. 1536–1623) converted the fishing village of Faithlie into the burgh of Fraserburgh in the 1590s. The other clan is Fraser of Lovat, associated mainly with the city of Inverness are. They are descended from Simon Fraser, a younger son, who lived in the early 14th century. In Gaelic, the head of Clan Fraser of Lovat is known as Mac Shimi ‘son of Simon’.
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