When Sen. Stephen Wallace Dorsey was born on 28 February 1842, in Benson, Rutland, Vermont, United States, his father, John Dorsey, was 51 and his mother, Mary Margaret Heffernan, was 37. He married Helen Marr Wack on 20 November 1865, in Oberlin, Lorain, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Chico, Colfax, New Mexico, United States in 1880 and United States in 1916. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 20 March 1916, in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver, Colorado, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historic Notes: 1847: Name changed from Yerba Buena to San Francisco. 1856: San Francisco an Independent City.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English (East Yorkshire): of French origin, a habitational name, with French preposition d(e), from Orsay in Seine-et-Orne, France, or from Orçay in Loire-et-Cher, recorded in the 13th century as Orceiacum, from the Latin personal name Orcius + the locative suffix -acum.
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Possible Related Namestephen Wallace Dorsey (February 28, 1842 – March 20, 1916) was a Republican politician who represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1873 to 1879, during the Reconstruction era. He was bo …
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