When Vilate Ellen Douglass was born on 19 November 1840, in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, George Douglass, was 38 and her mother, Ellen Briggs, was 34. She married George Romney on 26 February 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. She died on 9 December 1917, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Scottish and English (Durham and Northumbria): variant of Douglas .
History: William Douglass, a physician recognized for his identification and description of an epidemic of scarlet fever, was born c. 1691 in Gifford, Haddington County, Scotland, and settled in Boston in 1718. The abolitionist, orator, and journalist Frederick Douglass assumed the name after escaping from slavery in 1838 and traveling to Massachusetts. Son of a white father and a slave with some Indian blood, he was born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey c. 1817 in Tuckahoe, MD.
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