Nelles Frank Eaton

Female31 July 1860–22 October 1948

Brief Life History of Nelles Frank

When Nelles Frank Eaton was born on 31 July 1860, in Gardner, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Franklin Eaton, was 35 and her mother, Maria Louisa Fisk, was 32. She lived in San Jose, Santa Clara, California, United States in 1880. She died on 22 October 1948, in Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 88.

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Family Time Line

Franklin Eaton
1825–1891
Maria Louisa Fisk
1828–1880
Nelles Frank Eaton
1860–1948
Emma Fisk Eaton
1864–1943
Amasa Eaton
1868–1921

Sources (3)

  • Nellie F Eaton in household of Franklin Eaton, "United States Census, 1880"
  • Nelles Frank Eaton, "Massachusetts, Births, 1841-1915"
  • U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current about Nellie Frank Eaton

Parents and Siblings

Siblings (3)

World Events (8)

1863

Age 3

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1869 · Transcontinental Railroad Reaches San Francisco

Age 9

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.

1886

Age 26

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called Eaton or Eton, such as Eaton Socon (Bedfordshire), Eaton (Cheshire), or Eton (Buckinghamshire), named from either Old English ēa ‘river’ or ēg ‘island, low-lying land’ + tūn ‘enclosure, settlement’.

History: Nathaneal Eaton, born in Coventry, England, c. 1609, came to MA in 1637 and was the first head of Harvard College, in 1638–39.

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

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