When Abner S. Woolman was born on 21 January 1837, in Culpeper, Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas B Woolman, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Stanley, was 29. He married Alice Ann Holloway on 1 April 1863, in Columbiana, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 19 February 1919, in Smith Township, Mahoning, Ohio, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Damascus, Butler Township, Columbiana, Ohio, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
English (Leicestershire): variant of Wollman 1.
Americanized form of Jewish Wollman or German Wollmann (see Wollman ).
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