When Mary Mermell Allison was born on 26 June 1860, in Pinckney, Livingston, Michigan, United States, her father, James Allison, was 37 and her mother, Dorotha Allison Himes, was 31. She married Clark Elisha Wright on 29 October 1880, in Howell, Livingston, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Riverside, Riverside, California, United States in 1900 and Huntington Beach, Orange, California, United States in 1910. She died on 29 November 1911, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Glendale, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
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 and Scottish: patronymic from the Middle English female personal name Alice, Alis (see Allis ) + -son, meaning ‘Alice's son’.
English and Scottish: from the Middle English female personal name Alison, a common pet form of Alice, Alis. See Allis and compare Ellison .
Scottish: in some cases, a late variant of Allanson (see also Allinson ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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