Brief Life History of Frederick Oliver
When Frederick Oliver Sellman was born on 19 September 1842, in Montgomery, Maryland, United States, his father, William Oliver Sellman, was 28 and his mother, Ann Priscilla Woodward Poole, was 24. He married Damaris Almira Sellman on 30 January 1866, in Frederick, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in District 3, Montgomery, Maryland, United States for about 20 years. He died on 20 February 1904, in Dickerson, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Beallsville, Montgomery, Maryland, United States.
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- Frederick A Sellman, "United States Census, 1900"
- Frederick Oliver Sellman, "Find A Grave Index"
- Unknown in entry for Oliver G. Sellman, "District of Columbia Deaths, 1874-1961"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1871
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Montgomery, Maryland, United States
Name Meaning
English: variant of Selman .
Americanized form of German Sellmann: variant of Selbmann, a nickname for an independent and headstrong person, from Middle High German selp, selb ‘self’ + man ‘man’.
Americanized form of German Sellmann: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Sellen, for instance one near Münster in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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