When Jane A Wilcox was born in 1860, in Connecticut, United States, her father, Charles Augustus Wilcox, was 35 and her mother, Sylvia Maria Clark, was 35. She lived in Clinton, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States in 1860.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In 1868, the State of Connecticut gave the Navy 112 acres of land along the Thames River. This became the location of the Naval Submarine Base. It was designed to hold 1,400 men and 20 submarines. During WWII it was expanded to 497 acres.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
English (Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Flintshire): variant of Wilcock , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This form of the surname is based on the pronunciation.
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