Caroline Victoria Davis

Brief Life History of Caroline Victoria

When Caroline Victoria Davis was born on 4 January 1844, in Jackson, Waldo, Maine, United States, her father, Emerson Davis, was 34 and her mother, Mary Brown, was 36. She married Russel George Hamlin on 29 February 1868, in Jackson, Waldo, Maine, United States. She lived in Maine, United States in 1844. She died on 20 May 1918, in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Sherborn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

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Martin Cozzens
1840–1917
Caroline Victoria Davis
1844–1918
Marriage: 30 November 1871
Addie Mary Cozzens
1876–1922

Sources (20)

  • Carrie V Cozzens in household of Martin Cozzens, "United States Census, 1900"
  • Carrie V Davis, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
  • Carrie V. Davis Hamlin, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

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World Events (8)

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1851 · First State to Attempt Prohibition

"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."

1865

Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.

Name Meaning

English and Welsh: patronymic meaning ‘Dafydd's (son)’, equivalent to Welsh ap Dafydd, the Welsh form of David . The spelling Davis is more typical in southwestern England northwards as far as Lancashire, where the frequency of the surname largely reflects Welsh migration, but may sometimes represent a native English surname based on Davy (compare Davies ). Davis (including in the sense 2 below) is the eighth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans.

Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac Daibhéid ‘son of David’; see McDevitt . Compare Davies .

History: John Davis or Davys (c. 1550–1605) was an English navigator who searched for the Northwest Passage. — By the 18th century there were numerous persons named Davis in America, including the jurist John Davis, born in 1761 in Plymouth, MA, and Henry Davis, a clergyman and college president, who was born in 1771 in East Hampton, NY. — Jefferson Davis, born in 1808 in KY, was president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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