Brief Life History of Frederick William
When Frederick William Stowe was born on 5 May 1840, in Walnut Hills, Mill Creek Township, Hamilton, Ohio, United States, his father, Calvin Ellis Stowe, was 38 and his mother, Harriet Elisabeth Beecher, was 28. He lived in Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1850 and Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, United States in 1860. He died after 1871, in San Francisco, California, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Frederick Stone in household of Calvin E Stone, "United States Census, 1860"
- Frederick William Stowe, "Find A Grave Index"
- Frederick William Stowe in entry for Kate Stowe, "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1848 · The California Gold Rush
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: San Francisco, California, United States
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Stow or Stowe, all named with Old English stow ‘place, holy place, assembly place’ (a word akin to stoc; see Stoke ). In a few cases the surname appears to be topographic, denoting someone who lived by a church or monastery, from Middle English stow(e) ‘holy place, church, monastery’. Places in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, and Staffordshire having this origin use the spelling Stowe, but the spelling difference cannot be relied on as an indication of locality of origin. The final -e in part represents a trace of the Old English dative inflection.
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish surnames.
Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 司徒, see Situ .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Civil War
It is said that he was wounded in Battle of Gettysburg and went to San Francisco, CA. No one knows where he died or where he was buried.
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