Brief Life History of Mary Ellen
When Mary Ellen Goff was born on 5 June 1847, in North Towanda, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, George Judd Goff, was 21 and her mother, Angeline Kellogg, was 25. She married Solon A Reynolds in 1865, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Columbia Township, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880 and Canton, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1900. She died on 24 February 1923, in Sayre, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Main Street Cemetery, Canton, Bradford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Mary Goff in household of Wm Goff, "United States Census, 1860"
- Mary Ellen Goff Reynolds, "Find A Grave Index"
- Mary E. Reynolds in entry for Geo. G. Reynolds and Lula Gustin, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English: if originally pronounced with a soft G-, this is from the Middle English personal name Goff(e), Joff(e), a short form of Geoffrey (see Jeffrey ).
English (of Cornish and Breton origin): occupational name from Cornish and Breton goff ‘smith’ (cognate with Gaelic gobha). The surname is common in East Anglia, where it is of Breton origin, introduced by followers of William the Conqueror.
Welsh and Cornish: nickname from a variant of Welsh or Cornish coch, goch ‘red(-haired)’; see Gough .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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