Brief Life History of Samuel Edwin
When Samuel Edwin Woolley was born on 22 October 1859, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Samuel Wickersham Woolley, was 19 and his mother, Mariah Angell, was 18. He married Alice Rowberry on 6 May 1885, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He immigrated to San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States in 1920 and lived in Laie, Oahu, Hawaii, United States in 1910 and Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States for about 5 years. In 1925, at the age of 65, his occupation is listed as farmer, retired 10 yrs. in Utah, United States. He died on 3 April 1925, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Grantsville City Cemetery, Grantsville, Tooele, Utah, United States.
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- Samuel R R Woolley in household of Samuel E Woolley, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
- Samuel Edwin Woolley, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
- Samuel B in entry for Minerva P Woolley, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old English wulf ‘wolf’ + lēah ‘wood, clearing’, such as Woolley (Huntingdonshire, Yorkshire), Woolley in Bovey Tracy (Devon), and Woolley in Bradford on Avon (Wiltshire).
Irish (Cavan): in Ireland, according to Woulfe, when this is not the English name, it has been adopted for Woulfe .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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