Brief Life History of Sarah Elizabeth
When Sarah Elizabeth Copeland was born about 1859, in California, United States, her father, James F Copeland, was 41 and her mother, Susan Alice Hall, was 36. She married Jacob Marion Hahn on 11 June 1878, in Stanislaus, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Castoria Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1860 and Dent Judicial Township, San Joaquin, California, United States in 1880.
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- Elizabeth Copeland in household of B F Kauchochling, "United States Census, 1870"
- Sarah E Copeland, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
- Elizabeth Copeland in entry for Evert E Halm and Katie I Plumb, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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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.
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 and Scottish: habitational name from Copeland in Cumbria or Coupland in Northumberland, both named with Old Norse kaupa-land ‘bought land’, a feature worthy of note during the early Middle Ages, when land was rarely sold, but rather held by feudal tenure and handed down from one generation to the next.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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