Brief Life History of Orrin Bradley
When Orrin Bradley Dewey was born on 21 January 1847, in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Addison Andrew Dewey, was 36 and his mother, Betsey Catherine Moore, was 30. He married Sarah L Annie Holmes on 13 December 1876, in West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Winchester, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1880. He died on 15 April 1921, in Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Paucatuck Cemetery, West Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Bradley Dewey, "United States Census, 1880"
- Bradley Dewey, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Bradley Dewey, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924"
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1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
Welsh: from the personal name Dewi, Welsh form of David . In some cases the name may arise from the dedication of parish churches in places called Llanddewi (Saint David's), of which there are several.
Anglicized form of a French Huguenot name of uncertain form and origin. Traditionally it is recorded as Douai, a habitational name from a city so named in northern France, but it could also be from Old Norman French du we(z) ‘of the ford’, from a variant of standard French gué ‘ford’.
In some cases possibly also an Americanized form of Dutch De Weij (archaic De Wey): cognate of Van der Weij (see Wey ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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