Brief Life History of Jennie Jane
When Jennie Jane Parson was born on 9 September 1860, in McHenry, Illinois, United States, her father, Samuel Parson, was 39 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Myers, was 33. She married Homer Addison Gleason on 14 September 1881, in Bonus Township, Boone, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States in 1935 and Watsonville Judicial Township, Santa Cruz, California, United States in 1940. She died on 14 June 1942, in Santa Cruz, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Hampshire Center Cemetery, Hampshire Township, Kane, Illinois, United States.
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- Jennie G Eldredge in household of Mark Eldredge, "United States Census, 1920"
- Jennie Gleason, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Jennie Parson Gleason Eldredge, "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
English: status name or nickname from Middle English persone, persoun ‘priest, parson’ (Old French persone). The status of medieval bearers of the surname is uncertain. Priests were generally known by a habitational name rather than by a surname denoting their role in the church. They were not allowed to marry, but doubtless many had illegitimate children, some of whom may have been given Parson as a surname. Some of the original bearers may have been given it as a nickname (compare Priest , Bishop , Monk ) or it may have been an occupational name for someone who worked for the parson (a shortened form of Personesservaunt perhaps).
English: in northern England and the North Midlands especially, it is often a variant of Pearson . For the change in vowel compare Parr .
Americanized form of Swedish Pärsson, Pehrsson (see Pehrson ) or Persson , patronymics from vernacular shortened forms of the personal name Peter .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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