Brief Life History of George Swigart
When George Swigart Kimberly was born on 27 January 1851, his father, James Ross Kimberly, was 27 and his mother, Dorcas Swigart, was 26. He married Mary Margaret Brindle in 1878, in Mattawana, Bratton Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Oliver Township, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States for about 40 years. He died on 25 November 1922, in McVeytown, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in McVeytown, Mifflin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- George S Kimberley in household of James Kimberley, "United States Census, 1850"
- George Swigart Kimberly, "Find A Grave Index"
- George S. Kimberly in entry for Grover C. Kimberly and Maude O. Wilson, "Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1950"
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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.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English (Warwickshire and Staffordshire): variant of Kimberley .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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