Brief Life History of Charles A.
When Charles A. Harbour was born in 1856, in Floyd, Georgia, United States, his father, Burwell Strange Harbour, was 34 and his mother, Josephine Bale, was 21. He married Adda S. Wyatt on 15 January 1879, in Etowah, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters.
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- Charley A Harbour, "United States Census, 1880"
- Charles A. Harbour, "Alabama, Marriages, 1816-1957"
- Charles A. Harbour, "Alabama, Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
Name Meaning
English: nickname or topographic name for someone who kept or lived at a lodging-house, from late Old English herebeorg ‘shelter, lodging’ (from here ‘army’ + beorg ‘shelter’). The change of -er- to -ar- is a regular phonetic process in Middle English. Compare Harbach .
French: variant of Arbour . This form of the surname is virtually non-existing in France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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