Brief Life History of James Harvey
When James Harvey Hillhouse was born on 16 August 1864, in Mount Vernon, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, his father, James Harvey Hillhouse, was 25 and his mother, Margaret Elizabeth Young, was 25. He married Mary Ann Allen on 7 October 1886. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Aurora Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Mount Vernon Township, Lawrence, Missouri, United States for about 40 years. He died on 11 May 1943, in Mount Vernon, Lawrence, Missouri, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Jefferson City, Cole, Missouri, United States.
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- James A Hillhouse, "United States Census, 1930"
- James Hillhouse, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
- James Harvey Hillhouse, "Find A Grave Index"
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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."
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name from Middle English or early modern English hill + house ‘house on the hill’. In Yorkshire the surname may arise from the name of a farm in Fartown, Pudsey (Yorkshire).
Scottish (Ayrshire and Lanarkshire) and English: habitational name from any of several minor places in Ayrshire and elsewhere in Scotland, probably named with Middle English, Older Scots hill + house ‘house on the hill’.
History: Rev. James Hillhouse, the first minister of Montville, CT, came to North America from County Londonderry, Ireland, c. 1720. His grandson James Hillhouse was a Federalist congressman from CT and treasurer of Yale College from 1782 to 1832.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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