When Charles Leavings was born on 2 December 1852, in New York, United States, his father, Calvin Weir Levings, was 30 and his mother, Esther Susanna Davis, was 26. He married Agnes McCall on 20 November 1877, in Canton, Fulton, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Stuart, Martin, Florida, United States in 1930 and Estes Park, Larimer, Colorado, United States in 1930. He died in 1935, at the age of 83, and was buried in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States.
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On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
English: variant of Levins .
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