Brief Life History of Nell Gallison
When Nell Gallison Preble was born in 1884, in Woodstock, Oxford, Maine, United States, her father, John W Preble, was 39 and her mother, Elvira Abbie Gallison, was 37. She married Aubrey Otto Cummings on 4 October 1916, in Woodstock, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Milton Plantation, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1900. She died in 1936, in Maine, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Bryant Pond, Woodstock, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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- Nell P Cumming in household of Aubrey O Cumming, "United States Census, 1930"
- Nell G Preble, "Maine, Marriage Index, 1892-1966, 1977-1996"
- Nellie Preble in entry for Murry W Cummings, "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921"
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1886
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1886 · Giving Working Men a Union
The largest union group in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. It still exists today but merged with The Congress of Industrial Organization.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English (Middlesex): topographic name from preble, prebill ‘gravel’, probably for someone who lived near or worked at a gravel pit. This surname is rare in Britain.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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