When James A. Goheen was born on 19 May 1854, in Hamilton Township, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada, his father, George Goheen, was 29 and his mother, Clarissa Catherine Hollenbeck, was 25. He married Isabella Britt on 30 May 1881, in Brockway Township, St. Clair, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. He lived in Michigan, United States in 1870 and Speaker, Speaker Township, Sanilac, Michigan, United States in 1880. He died on 4 November 1932, in Yale, St. Clair, Michigan, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Yale, St. Clair, Michigan, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
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.
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