Brief Life History of Clarissa Isabel
When Clarissa Isabel Woodruff was born in 1838, in Lewis, Lewis, Essex, New York, United States, her father, Jeremiah Root Woodruff, was 30 and her mother, Clarissa Ward Hinckley, was 27. She married Henry Dowling on 18 November 1866, in Elizabethtown, Elizabethtown, Essex, New York, United States. She lived in Plattsburgh, Clinton, New York, United States in 1880.
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- Isabella Dowling, "United States Census, 1880"
- Isabella C. Dowling, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
- Isabel Woodruff in household of Jeremiah Woodruff, "United States Census, 1850"
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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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English woderove ‘woodruff, sweet woodruff’ (Old English wudurofe), a sweet-scented plant. The leaves of the plant have a sweet smell and the surname may also have been a nickname for one who used it as a perfume, or perhaps an ironical nickname for a malodorous person. Alternatively, perhaps a topographic name for someone who lived at or near a place where woodruff grew. There may have been some confusion with Woodrow .
History: Two English families brought the name Woodruff to the American colonies: those of Matthew Woodruff and of John and Ann Woodruffe. The latter migrated to Lynn, MA, from Kent, and moved to Southampton, Long Island, NY, before 1640. John and Ann's many descendants were established in NJ, NC, and SC by 1790. The city of Woodruff, SC, is named for this family. The name is variously spelled Woodrove, Woodroffe, Woodruffe, Woodrough, and Woodruff in colonial records.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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