Brief Life History of Edward Van
When Edward Van Horn was born in 1849, in Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Thomas Rhodes Van Horn, was 34 and his mother, Ann Maria Abbott, was 39. He lived in Jim Thorpe, Carbon, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850.
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- Edward Vanhorn in household of Thomas R Vanhorn, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (8)
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
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.
1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Name Meaning
German (Hören): habitational name from Höri, a peninsula in Lake Constance.
Altered form of German and Dutch Horn .
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Horn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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