Lucelin A. George

Female10 March 1850–October 1856

Brief Life History of Lucelin A.

When Lucelin A. George was born on 10 March 1850, in Orrington, Penobscot, Maine, United States, her father, Seth Capron George, was 34 and her mother, Mehitabel S Higgins, was 33. She died in October 1856, in Orrington, Penobscot, Maine, United States, at the age of 6.

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Family Time Line

Seth Capron George
1816–1884
Mehitabel S Higgins
1817–1901
Richard A. George
1843–1844
Albert A. George
1847–1925
Lucelin A. George
1850–1856
Harriet L. George
1851–1923
Ann Ruth George
1853–1928
Herbert W George
1855–1936

Sources (4)

  • Luclia A George in household of Seth C George, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Lucelin A. George, "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
  • Lucelin A. George, "Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910"

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World Events (1)

1851 · First State to Attempt Prohibition

Age 1

"In 1851, Maine outlawed the sale of alcohol, allowing exceptions only for ""medicinal, mechanical, and manufacturing purposes"". This made Maine the first state to experiment with prohibition. Neal Dow, mayor of Portland, believed that alcohol was linked to slavery and was also convinced by the Christian temperance movement. Dow ran into problems later for his anti-immigration rhetoric against the Irish, and also for breaking his own prohibition laws; although not a designated ""purchaser"", Dow personally purchased alcohol to distribute to local doctors, violating a technicality. As the citizens turned against him, Dow eventually ordered soldiers to fire on protesters. This marked a sharp decline in Dow's political career, and the Maine Law was repealed by 1856. Aspects of the law would remain in tact, however, and ultimately paved the way for the 18th Amendment, which prohibited alcohol on the national level."

Name Meaning

English, Welsh, French, and Romanian: from the personal name George, Latin Georgius, Greek Geōrgios, from an adjectival form, geōrgios ‘rustic’, of Greek geōrgos ‘farmer’. This became established as a personal name in classical times through its association with the fashion for pastoral poetry. Its popularity in western Europe increased at the time of the Crusades, which brought greater contact with the Orthodox Church, in which several Christian martyrs and saints of this name are venerated, in particular a saint believed to have been martyred at Nicomedia in AD 303, who, however, is at best a shadowy figure historically. Nevertheless, by the end of the Middle Ages Saint George had become associated with an unhistorical legend of dragon-slaying exploits, which caught the popular imagination throughout Europe, and he came to be considered the patron saint of England among other places. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages, e.g. German Georg , Assyrian/Chaldean Giwargis, Gewargis , or Georgis , and Albanian Gjergji , and also their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Greek Georgiadis , Georgopoulos , Hatzigeorgiou ‘George the Pilgrim’, and Papageorgiou , Romanian Georgescu or Gheorghescu, Serbian Djordjevic . The name George is also found among Christians in southern India (compare Geevarghese and Varghese ), but since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames, the southern Indian name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.

German: variant of Georg .

Native American (e.g. Navajo): adoption of the English personal name George (see 1 above) as a surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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