When DeAlton H BOWELL was born on 13 August 1856, in La Porte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, his father, Absalom Carr Bowell, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Ann Ireland, was 30. He married Sarah Viola Melson in 1892. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Kankakee Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States in 1900 and Kankakee, Johnson Township, LaPorte, Indiana, United States in 1910. He died in 1919, in La Porte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in La Porte, LaPorte, Indiana, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1866: La Porte, Indiana, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Bouelles in Seine-Maritime, France, so named with Old Norman French boelle ‘enclosure, dwelling’.
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