Brief Life History of James Andrew
When James Andrew Main was born on 6 August 1861, in Time, Pike, Illinois, United States, his father, William Hamilton Main, was 40 and his mother, Permelia Elizabeth Barney, was 28. He married Harriet Rector on 18 October 1885, in Mendocino, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Salt Point Township, Sonoma, California, United States for about 20 years. He died on 22 March 1940, in Santa Rosa, Sonoma, California, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Annapolis, Sonoma, California, United States.
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- James A Main, "United States Census, 1920"
- James A Maine, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- James Main, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Scottish: from a shortened form of the Scandinavian personal name Magnus , which in Older Scots became Manus and Mane.
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Ma(g)ino, Meino, from magan ‘strength, might’.
English (of Norman origin): nickname for a large man, from Old French magne, maine ‘great, big’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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