Brief Life History of Melissa A
When Melissa A Wise was born in December 1844, in Ohio, United States, her father, Samuel Fisher Wise, was 32 and her mother, Hannah K. Wise, was 24. She married Clement Theodore Park on 30 August 1866, in Stark, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Santa Clara, California, United States in 1880 and United States in 1900. She died on 4 February 1917, in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States.
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- Melissa Park, "United States Census, 1910"
- Melissa A. Wise, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Melissa Park, "California Death Index, 1905-1939"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Name Meaning
English: nickname for a wise or learned person, from Middle English wise, wisse ‘wise’ (Old English wīs). This name has also absorbed Dutch Wijs and De Wijs, a nickname meaning ‘(the) wise’, and possibly cognates in other languages.
English: topographic name for someone who lived by the withies or willows, from Middle English withi, Old English wīthig ‘withy, willow’.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Weiss ‘white’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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