Brief Life History of Albert Clark
When Albert Clark Franklin was born on 5 September 1859, in Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Albert Greene Franklin, was 39 and his mother, Clarissa Gifford Vaughan, was 43. He married Sarah Elizabeth Burdick on 13 April 1878, in West Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Voluntown, New London, Connecticut, United States in 1900. He died on 20 August 1904, at the age of 44, and was buried in Richmond, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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- Albert C Franklin, "United States Census, 1880"
- Frankin, "Rhode Island, State Births Index, 1819, 1852-1900"
- Albert Clark Franklin, "Rhode Island Marriages, 1724-1916"
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1862 · US Naval Academy
The US Naval Academy was moved to Newport, Rhode Island from its original in Annapolis, Maryland on May 9, 1862.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Name Meaning
English: status name from Middle English frankeleyn ‘freeman, freeholder, land-owner of free but not noble birth’ (Anglo-Norman French fraunclein). In general, he was a gentleman ranked above the main body of minor freeholders but below a knight or a member of the nobility.
Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames, such as Frankel .
History: The American statesman and scientist Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) was the son of Josiah Franklin, a chandler (dealer in soap and candles), who had emigrated c. 1682 from Ecton, Northamptonshire, to Boston, MA, where his son was born.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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