When Susan Galloway was born on 10 October 1846, in Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, William James Gallaway, was 41 and her mother, Elizabeth Wallace, was 42. She married George Peter Coan on 6 September 1865, in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She immigrated to United States in 1855 and lived in Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1860 and Taylor, Wayne, Michigan, United States for about 50 years. She died on 23 July 1927, in Township of Taylor, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in West Mound Cemetery, Taylor, Wayne, Michigan, United States.
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The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
English and Scottish: habitational name from Galloway in southwest Scotland, named as ‘place of the foreign Gaels’, from Gaelic gall ‘foreigner’ + Gaidheal ‘Gael’. From the 8th century or before it was a province of Anglian Northumbria. In the 9th century it was settled by mixed Gaelic-Norse inhabitants from the Hebrides and Isle of Man.
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