Brief Life History of Salina M.
When Salina M. Sprague was born on 25 June 1872, in Beaverkill, Rockland, Sullivan, New York, United States, her father, Simeon Sprague, was 42 and her mother, Sarah Maffitt, was 32. She married William Hezekah Morton on 6 March 1895. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Liberty, Sullivan, New York, United States for about 5 years and Liberty, Liberty, Sullivan, New York, United States in 1900. She died about 1920, at the age of 49.
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- Lena Morton in household of William Morton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Lena Sprague in entry for Preston Ward, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- Susana Sprague in household of Simson Sprague, "New York State Census, 1875"
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1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1875 · A New Civil Rights Act
During the response to civil rights violations to African Americans, the bill was passed giving African Americans equal treatment in public accommodations, public transportation, and to prohibit exclusion from jury duty. While many in the public opposed this law, the African Americans greatly favored it.
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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