Brief Life History of Lewis Franklin
When Lewis Franklin James was born on 1 May 1860, in Pleasant Grove, Sutter, California, United States, his father, Calvin James, was 32 and his mother, Mary Vestal, was 31. He married Mary Elizabeth Trevathan on 20 November 1882, in Sacramento, Sacramento, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Nicolaus, Sutter, California, United States for about 20 years and Nicolaus Judicial Township, Sutter, California, United States in 1940. He died on 23 January 1945, in Sutter, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Sutter, California, United States.
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- Lewis F James, "United States Census, 1940"
- Lewis Franklin James, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Lewis Franklin James, "Find A Grave Index"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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