Brief Life History of Elbridge Gerry
When Elbridge Gerry Douglas was born in January 1827, in Amherst, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Joseph William Douglass, was 23 and his mother, Phebe Bisbee, was 39. He married Fanny Woodbury Parsons on 8 November 1853, in Chicopee, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 6 daughters. He died on 10 January 1907, in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Elbridge Douglas, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elbridge G Douglas - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth-name: Elbridge G Douglas
- Eldridge G. Douglas, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1841-1915"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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