Brief Life History of Helen Frances
When Helen Frances Hosmer was born about 1842, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, her father, George Smith Hosmer, was 37 and her mother, Ann Wells Schuyler, was 34. She married James Monroe Goodell in 1864, in Shiawassee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 2 May 1900, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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- Helen F Goodell in household of James M Goodell, "United States Census, 1870"
- Helen Frances Hosmer Goodell, "Find A Grave Index"
- Frances Kinberley in entry for E. C. Loring and Geneveive R. Goodelt, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · State Capital Moves to Lansing
Detroit fought to maintain the Capitol within its jurisdiction, but communities in the growing western part of the state had reasons for wanting a move inland. This move would make the Capitol more easily defensible in case of another war between the British and the U.S. like that of the War of 1812. Proponents of moving the capitol also sought to make the government more accessible to the people throughout the state. Construction began in 1847 on a temporary state capitol building in Lansing. It was a simple two-story wood frame structure, painted white with green wooden shutters and topped by a tin cupola. The building was sold when the permanent capitol building opened in 1879 and, like the first capitol, it was later destroyed by a fire in 1882.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English (Kent): variant of Osmer , with excrescent initial H-.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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