Brief Life History of Adeline Densmore
When Adeline Densmore Brockway was born on 18 March 1861, in Genesee, Michigan, United States, her father, George Riley Brockway, was 42 and her mother, Ellen Coburn, was 37. She married Henry Thomas Clark on 18 March 1879, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. She lived in Taycheedah, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, United States in 1850. She died on 27 April 1944, in Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Flint, Genesee, Michigan, United States.
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- Adeline D Clack in household of George H Bradt, "United States Census, 1930"
- Edda Brockway, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Adeline D Clark, "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1883 · The Newhall House Hotel Fire
A fire erupted on January 10, 1883, at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee. The fire began at 4:00 am in an elevator shaft and raced up through the building. The fire spread so quickly that many could not escape. General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, stars of P.T. Barnum's circus, were guests in the hotel at the time of the fire. A firefighter reached them by ladder and they were able to escape safely. The exact number of deaths remains unknown as the hotel register was destroyed in the fire, however, the death toll is estimated between 75-90.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English broke ‘brook, stream’ + weye ‘way, road’, for someone who lived ‘(by the) road near the brook’. The name may refer to a lost or as yet unidentified place.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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