Brief Life History of Victoria L
When Victoria L Sprague was born on 16 February 1882, in Haskinville, Fremont, Steuben, New York, United States, her father, George Henry Sprague, was 45 and her mother, Malinda B Pawling, was 42. She married Ellis Lindsey Crouch about 1905. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Bath, Bath, Steuben, New York, United States in 1920 and Caneadea, Caneadea, Allegany, New York, United States for about 10 years. She died on 10 December 1963, in Gaithersburg, Montgomery, Maryland, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Houghton, Caneadea, Allegany, New York, United States.
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- Victoria L Sprague in household of George C Sprague, "United States Census, 1900"
- Victoria L Sprague Crouch, "Find A Grave Index"
- Victoria L Sprague in entry for Earl Givler and Verna Iowa Crouch, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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.
1904
St. Louis, Missouri, United States hosts Summer Olympic Games.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): nickname from Middle English sprag ‘brisk, energetic’, a variant of Sprake with voicing of the -k-, which survives in the 19th-century dialect word spragg ‘lively, ingenious’. It was occasionally used in the 12th century as personal name, recorded as Spreg'c. 1177–86.
History: William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale's Sprague concert hall.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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