Josephine Brooks

Brief Life History of Josephine

When Josephine Brooks was born in 1877, in New York, United States, her father, John Brooks, was 46 and her mother, Matilda Rabideau, was 40. She lived in Moriah, Moriah, Essex, New York, United States in 1880.

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Family Time Line

John Brooks
1831–1893
Matilda Rabideau
1837–1910
Mary L. Brooks
1855–
Levi Brooks Sr
1860–1938
Phoebe Brooks
1861–1933
Felix Brooks
1866–1956
John Brooks
1868–1928
Kate Brooks
1871–
Frank Brooks
1874–1918
Josephine Brooks
1877–
Elizabeth Brooks
1880–1917

Sources (1)

  • Josephine Brooks in household of John Brooks, "United States Census, 1880"

World Events (3)

1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.

1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1917 · Women Given the Right to Vote in New York

Voters in New York approve a bill giving women the right to vote. This is passed three years prior to the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution which allowed women to vote nationwide.

Name Meaning

English: usually a variant of Brook , with excrescent -s. The optional addition of -s, with no grammatical function, is usually post-medieval, but some examples of the same person's name occurring with and without -(e)s have been noted as early as the 14th century in South Lancashire. The -es in such cases probably has neither a plural nor a genitival function, and the name means ‘dweller at the brook’, not ‘dweller at the brooks’. A plural sense cannot be ruled out elsewhere, but a non-grammatical -(e)s must also be considered a strong possibility.

Americanized form of one or more similar (like-sounding) Jewish surnames.

Americanized form of German Brucks .

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

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