When Minnie Alice Tryon was born on 16 November 1860, in Arcadia, Morgan, Illinois, United States, her father, Andrew Sylvanus Tryon, was 51 and her mother, Alice Morley Townsend Alvord, was 40. She married Richard Thomas Ferguson on 16 November 1880, in Elk River, Sherburne, Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Elk River, Sherburne, Minnesota, United States in 1880. She died on 28 June 1885, in Herman, Grant, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 24, and was buried in Hillside Cemetery, Monticello Township, Wright, Minnesota, United States.
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Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
English (Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire): altered form of Dutch Trion, itself a shortened variant of Tirion, a cognate of Walloon and French Thiry .
History: A Northamptonshire family of this name trace their descent from Peter Trieon (died 1611), who went to England from the Netherlands c. 1562. His son, Moses Tryon, was high sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1624. William Tryon (born 1729 in Surrey, England) was the last provincial governor of NY; he gave his name to Tryon County, the district which took in the Mohawk Valley; after the American Revolution this huge area was split into Montgomery, Fulton, and other counties.
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