When William Henry Luster was born in January 1847, in Noble Township, Auglaize, Ohio, United States, his father, Stephen Addison Luster, was 25 and his mother, Eleanor M Blackford, was 18. He married Harriett C. Masters on 27 September 1874, in Vinton, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 11 December 1923, in Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States.
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Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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 The Amendment was later repealed.
Probably an altered form of English Lester . This surname is common among African Americans.
German: habitational name for someone from any of the places called Lust (see Lust 2).
Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): either an artificial extension of Lust 1 or from southern German Luster ‘chandelier’.
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