When Rachel Johnson Field was born on 20 May 1837, in Mansfield Square, Mansfield Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, her father, Benjamin Field, was 60 and her mother, Ann Nancy Zelley, was 41. She married James Strode on 7 May 1857, in Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States for about 45 years. She died on 27 February 1916, in Elmira Town, Chemung, New York, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, Chemung, New York, United States.
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The 1844 revision of the New Jersey State Constitution made some significant changes. Suffrage rights were revoked from women and non-whites, meaning that only white men could vote. A separation of powers was established between executive, legislative, and judicial branches. A new bill of rights was provided, and the state now had the right to elect the governor.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
No Civil War battles took place within the state boundaries of New Jersey, but its citizens participated extensively in the war. Volunteers that were turned away ended up serving in the militias of nearby states like Pennsylvania and New York. Whenever President Lincoln requested more troops, New Jersey responded quickly. In total, the state contributed over 88,000 soldiers (6,000 of which died).
English and Irish: habitational name, probably from Field, in Leigh, Staffordshire. The placename derives from Old English feld ‘flat open country’. In the late 12th century one of Henry II's warrior knights took the surname to Ireland, where it often took the semi-Norman French form de la Feld. From the 15th century onward it was increasingly reduced to Field and gave its name to Fieldstown, the family's chief seat near Dublin. A branch of the Anglo-Irish family that migrated back to England in the 14th century retained the Normanized form as Delafield .
English: topographic name for someone who lived by an arable field or an area of open country (Middle English feld).
Irish: Anglicized form of Feeley , through similarity of sound, and of Maghery by translation (chiefly in Armagh), from Gaelic An Mhachaire ‘of the field’.
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