When Henry Auldrich Cole was born on 8 January 1830, in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine, United States, his father, Josiah Cole, was 24 and his mother, Permilia Bearce, was 19. He married Gracie Ann Smith on 2 November 1850, in Piscataquis, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Sebago Lake, Standish, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1900 and Standish, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1920. He died in November 1879, in Maine, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine, United States.
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Convinced that a group of Native American tribes were hostile, The United States formed a frontier militia to stop them in their tracks. Even though Black Hawk was hoping to avoid bloodshed while trying to resettle on tribal land, U.S. officials opened fire on the Native Americans. Black Hawk then responded to this confrontation by successfully attacking the militia at the Battle of Stillman's Run and then left northward. After a few months the militia caught up with Black Hawk and his men and defeated them at the Battle of Wisconsin Heights. While being weakened by hunger, injuries and desertion, Black Hawk and the rest of the many native survivors retreated towards the Mississippi. Unfortunately, Black Hawk and other leaders were later captured when they surrendered to the US forces and were then imprisoned for a year.
Historical Boundaries: 1838: Piscataquis, Maine, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: usually from the Middle English and Old French personal name Col(e), Coll(e), Coul(e), a pet form of Nicol (see Nichol and Nicholas ), a common personal name from the mid 13th century onward. English families with this name migrated to Scotland and to Ulster (especially Fermanagh).
English: occasionally perhaps from a different (early) Middle English personal name Col, of native English or Scandinavian origin. Old English Cola was originally a nickname from Old English col ‘coal’ in the sense ‘coal-black (of hair), swarthy’ and is the probable source of most of the examples in Domesday Book. In the northern and eastern counties of England settled by Vikings in the 10th and 11th centuries, alternative sources are Old Norse Kolr and Koli (either from a nickname ‘the swarthy one’ or a short form of names in Kol-), and Old Norse Kollr (from a nickname, perhaps ‘the bald one’).
English: nickname for someone with swarthy skin or black hair, from Middle English col, coul(e) ‘charcoal, coal’ (Old English col).
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