When Elizabeth Layne was born in 1863, in Oregon, United States, her father, Lanville Layne, was 39 and her mother, Harriet Morgan Klady, was 25. She married William John Gossett on 17 December 1879, in Douglas, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 7 daughters. She lived in Calapooia Election Precinct, Douglas, Oregon, United States in 1880. She died on 11 March 1898, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Vancouver, Clark, Washington, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Married Women’s Property Act protected women’s rights protected property for women in Oregon upon the death of her husband.
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.
English: variant of Lane .
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