Brief Life History of George
When George Webster Jr. was born on 28 October 1849, in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, his father, George Washington Webster, was 38 and his mother, Maria Jane Mc Kinney, was 33. He married Marie Daughtery on 14 February 1884, in Wabash, Noble Township, Wabash, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States for about 40 years. He died on 18 July 1938, in Marion, Center Township, Grant, Indiana, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Princeton Cemetery, Princeton, Somerset, New Jersey, United States.
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- George Webster in household of George W Webster, "United States Census, 1870"
- George Webster, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
- George W. Webster, "Find A Grave Index"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, from Middle English webbester ‘weaver’ (Old English webbestre ‘female weaver’). By the time of surname formation, the gender distinction of the -stre suffix had almost completely disappeared. Compare Webb , Webber , and Weaver .
History: The name Webster was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One John Webster settled in Ipswich, MA, in 1635; another John Webster (died 1661), ancestor of the lexicographer Noah Webster, emigrated to Cambridge, MA, c. 1631 and later became one of the founders of the colony of CT, of which he was appointed governor in 1656. Daniel Webster (1782–1852), politician and orator, was born in Salisbury, NH, a descendant of Thomas Webster, a prominent 17th-century citizen of Ipswich, MA, whose family had settled there around 1635, while he was still a child.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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