Brief Life History of Henry
When Henry Symonds was born on 15 July 1868, in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Henry Stephen Symonds, was 32 and his mother, Margaretha Wertz, was 22. He lived in Arena Judicial Township, Mendocino, California, United States in 1880. He died on 22 April 1931, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 62.
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- Henry Symonds in household of H S Symonds, "United States Census, 1880"
- Henry Symonds, "California, County Birth and Death Records, 1800-1994"
- Henry Symonds, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco
The first transcontinental railroad reached San Francisco in 1869. The Western Pacific Railroad Company built the track from Oakland to Sacramento. The Central Pacific Railroad Company of California built the section from Sacramento to Promontory Summit Utah. The railroad linked isolated California to the rest of the country which had far-reaching effects on the social and economical development of the state.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Simmons , with excrescent -d.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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