When Seth Aniah Shinn was born on 2 December 1853, in Doddridge, Virginia, United States, his father, George Washington Shinn, was 36 and his mother, Mary Ann Wilson, was 37. He married Mary Sidney Ice on 18 August 1879, in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Central District, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Central, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. He died on 23 June 1937, in West Union, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Doddridge, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
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 (Norfolk and Suffolk): nickname from Middle English shin(ne) ‘fair, handsome’, a variant of Shine 3 and Sheen 2.
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