When John Phillip Wagaman was born in October 1860, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Christian Wagaman, was 20 and his mother, Susanna Kaetzel, was 16. He married Sarah Jane Welsh on 29 June 1884, in Villisca, Montgomery, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter.
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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.
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Americanized form of German Wagemann .
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