When Susan Maine was born in 1844, in Barkhamsted, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, her father, Samuel Maine, was 31 and her mother, Nancy O. Sage, was 31.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: variant of Main .
French: topographic name from Old French maine ‘dwelling, residence, abode’, or a habitational name from any of numerous places so named.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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