When Oliver Westfall was born in 1850, in Lewis, West Virginia, United States, his father, Watson Westfall, was 32 and his mother, Rachel Catherine Tenney, was 29. He married Elizabeth Jane Sites on 16 June 1870, in Upshur, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Washington District, Upshur, West Virginia, United States in 1880 and Springhill Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 July 1911, in Bluff, Jackson Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Garrison, Freeport Township, Greene, Pennsylvania, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Americanized form of German Westfahl and Westphal .
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