Brief Life History of Francis Alvin
When Francis Alvin Abbott was born on 16 March 1862, in Point Reyes, Marin, California, United States, his father, Carlisle Stewart Abbot, was 34 and his mother, Alice Elizabeth Merriman, was 28. He married Annabel Forster on 4 September 1884, in Monterey, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Alisal, Salinas, Monterey, California, United States in 1900 and Monterey, California, United States in 1919. He died on 28 March 1935, in Salinas, Monterey, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Salinas, Monterey, California, United States.
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- Frances Abbott in household of Corr Abbott, "United States Census, 1870"
- F A Abbott, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Francis A Abbott, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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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.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English abbod, abbot(t), abbat ‘abbot’ (Old English abbod) or Old French abet ‘priest’. Both the Old English and the Old French term are derived from Late Latin abbas (genitive abbatis) ‘priest’, from Greek abbas, from Aramaic aba ‘father’. The nickname was presumably a joking reference to a person's behaviour. In the US, the English name is also sometimes a translation of a cognate or equivalent European name, e.g. Italian Abate , Spanish Abad , or German Abt .
History: George Abbot from Yorkshire, England, settled in Andover, MA, in 1640; he had numerous prominent descendants. George Abbott (probably not the same man) died in Rowley, MA, in 1647. Another early migrant was James Abbott, who came from Somerset, England, to Long Island, NY, in the 17th century.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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