When Harrison Tyler Ireland was born on 2 October 1848, in LaPorte, Indiana, United States, his father, Pleasant Ireland, was 35 and his mother, Matilda Blair Newell, was 36. He married Elizabeth Mildred Owen in 1869. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Richland Township, Marshall, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Cazenovia, Woodford, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. He died on 14 April 1940, in Washburn, Woodford, Illinois, United States, at the age of 91, and was buried in Linn Township, Woodford, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1851: Woodford, Illinois, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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English and Scottish: ethnic name denoting someone from Ireland, from Middle English Irland, Irlond, Erlond (Old English Īraland). The country gets its name from the genitive case of Old English Īras ‘Irishmen’ + land ‘land’. The stem Īr- is taken from the Celtic name for Ireland, Èriu, earlier Everiu. The Latin name was (H)ibernia. The surname is especially common in Liverpool, England, which has a large Irish population. Compare Irish .
Americanized form of Erland .
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