When William Bingham DeRigne was born in 1844, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Abraham DeRigne, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Moyers, was 33. He married Sarah Jane Spaw on 10 October 1867, in Randolph, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Sugar Creek Township, Randolph, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Liberty Township, Schuyler, Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 10 April 1879, in Cairo Township, Randolph, Missouri, United States, at the age of 35, and was buried in Randolph, Missouri, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Probably the most successful of all the Old French names of Germanic origin that were introduced to England by the Normans. It is derived from Germanic wil ‘will, desire’ + helm ‘helmet, protection’. The fact that it was borne by the Conqueror himself does not seem to have inhibited its favour with the ‘conquered’ population: in the first century after the Conquest it was the commonest male name of all, and not only among the Normans. In the later Middle Ages it was overtaken by John , but continued to run second to that name until the 20th century, when the picture became more fragmented.
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