Brief Life History of Cecilia
When Cecilia Peterson was born on 5 August 1868, in Torhamn, Blekinge, Sweden, her father, Peter Nilsson, was 26 and her mother, Ingrid Petersdotter, was 24. She married Frands Marius Poulsen on 17 June 1896, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Hudson, New Jersey, United States in 1905 and Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States in 1915. She died on 29 August 1948, in Richmond, New York, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Moravian Cemetery, New Dorp, Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States.
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- Cecelie Paulsen in household of Frank Paulsen, "New Jersey State Census, 1905"
- Cecilia Petterson, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1940"
- Cecelia Paulsen, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1879
Thomas Edison had been seeking to create a more practical and affordable version of the lightbulb, primarily for home use. Edison had attempted several different materials, including platinum and other metals, before ultimately deciding on a carbon filament. On October 21, 1879, Edison finally carried out the first successful test of this new light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Cecilia lived in the house her husband built on Midland Avenue for many years after his death. She rented out rooms and also let family members live there, especially Frank Paulsen and his wife and B …
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