Brief Life History of Samuel Leroy
When Samuel Leroy Cannell was born on 27 March 1848, in Gorham, Cumberland, Maine, United States, his father, Heman Cannell, was 27 and his mother, Lucy Ann Gilman, was 26. He had at least 1 son and 3 daughters with Laura E Morton. He lived in Windham, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1870. He registered for military service in 13. In 1880, at the age of 32, his occupation is listed as paper mill worker in Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine, United States. He died on 6 July 1926, in Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
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- Samuel Cannel, "United States Census, 1870"
- Samuel A Cannell, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Samuel A Cannell, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
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1851 · First State to Attempt Prohibition
"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."
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
Manx: shortened form of Gaelic Mac Dhomhnaill ‘son of Domhnall’. It is equivalent to Scottish McDonald and Irish McConnell . Domhnall was sometimes Anglicized as Daniel in Ireland and the Isle of Mann. The Manx placename Ballacannell (one in Arbory, another in Lonan) is ‘Cannell's farm’, from the surname.
English: perhaps from Middle English canel ‘cinnamon’ (Old French canele), a metonymic occupational name denoting a spicer.
English: alternatively, perhaps from Middle English can(n)el, Old French canel, chanel, denoting someone who lived by a water channel or a city drain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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