Brief Life History of Silas Ralph
When Silas Ralph Brewster was born in 1850, in Ohio, United States, his father, Calvin Brewster, was 63 and his mother, Harriet Cramer, was 37. He married Madorah Florence Morris on 17 December 1884, in San Luis Obispo, California, United States. He lived in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1880 and Santa Margarita Judicial Township, San Luis Obispo, California, United States in 1900. He died on 11 July 1908, at the age of 58, and was buried in San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California, United States.
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- Ralph S in household of Charles J Russell, "United States Census, 1880"
- S B Brewster, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Silas R Brewster, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: San Luis Obispo, California, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a brewer of beer or ale, from Middle English brewestere, browestere ‘(female) brewer’ (from Old English brēowan ‘to brew’). Brewer is the usual term in southern England, while Brewster is mainly midland, northern, and Scottish.
History: The Mayflower Pilgrim William Brewster (1567–1644) was the son of the bailiff of the manor of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, home of one of the earliest Puritan congregations. He was a prominent leader in Plymouth Colony from the 1620s until his death.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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