Brief Life History of Clara Jane
When Clara Jane Shaw was born on 7 May 1863, in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Isaac Lewis Shaw, was 40 and her mother, Almira R. Esterbrook, was 33. She married Oscar Fairfield Whitman on 21 November 1885, in Gorham, Coos, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States for about 30 years. She died on 12 January 1943, at the age of 79, and was buried in Lewiston, Androscoggin, Maine, United States.
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- Clara I Whitman, "United States Census, 1930"
- Clara J. Shaw, "Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915"
- Clara J. Shaw, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): from Middle English s(c)hawe, s(c)haghe ‘small wood, grove, thicket’ (Old English sceaga). The surname may be topographic, for someone who lived in or by a small wood, or habitational, for someone from any of the many places so named. Shaw and Shawe are most frequent in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where Shaw in Oldham (Lancashire) may be a principal source of the surname. The English and Lowland Scottish surname was also established in Ireland in the 17th century.
Scottish: shortened form of various surnames from the Gaelic personal name Sitheach, derived from sithech ‘wolf’.
Irish (Down and Antrim): adopted for Ó Síthigh ‘descendant of Sítheach’, a personal name based on sítheach ‘peaceful’. Compare Sheehy .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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