Brief Life History of Florence Lillian
When Florence Lillian Carlisle was born on 25 December 1864, in Surry, Hancock, Maine, United States, her father, Levi Turner Carlisle, was 19 and her mother, Mary Jane Lufkins, was 15. She married James Monroe Smith on 8 November 1884, in Hancock, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Maine, United States in 1870. She died on 7 December 1929, in Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States, at the age of 64.
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- Florence Carlisle in household of Levi Carlisle, "United States Census, 1870"
- Florence Lilian Carlisle, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Flora Carlisle, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
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1865
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 · The Assassination of a President
"While attending the play ""Our American Cousin"" in Ford's Theatre, actor John Wilkes Booth climbed up the stairs to the suite that President Abraham Lincoln and his wife resided. Once inside the suite Booth pulled out his pistol and shot The President in the head. In critical condition The President was carried out of the theatre for urgent medical attention. Unfortunately, Lincoln died the following day. Abraham Lincoln was the first American president to be assassinated, and his death caused a period of national mourning both in the North and South."
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
English (northern): habitational name from the Cumbrian city of Carlisle, in whose name Celtic cair ‘fort’ has been compounded with the Romano-British name of the settlement, Luguvalium.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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