Brief Life History of Alfred Harry
When Alfred Harry Mccombs was born on 23 February 1862, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, William Harvey McCombs, was 29 and his mother, Catharine Long, was 29. He married Ida May Arndt on 11 March 1886, in Perry, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. He died on 3 October 1936, at the age of 74, and was buried in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Alfred H McCombs in household of Catharine McCombs, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Alfred Harry Mccombs - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Alfred Harry Mccombs
- Harry Mccombs, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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
Scottish and northern Irish: variant of McComb , with excrescent English -s. Compare Combs .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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