When Christian Garber Longenecker was born on 9 March 1855, in West Donegal Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Longenecker, was 37 and his mother, Nancy Siegrist Garber, was 34. He married Lavina Royer Bender on 1 November 1888, in Columbia, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Rapho Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1910 and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States in 1920. He died on 4 January 1924, in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Salunga, East Hempfield Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
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.
Altered form of Swiss German Langenecker, a habitational name for someone from any of several places called Langeneck, from Old High German lang ‘long’ + egga ‘corner’.
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