When Simeon Henry Lanning was born on 28 September 1850, in Cranbury, Cranbury Township, Middlesex, New Jersey, United States, his father, Ralph Lanning, was 31 and his mother, Dianah Bendy, was 29. He married Alice Paxton on 13 February 1872, in Linn, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Cherokee, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Mineral Township, Cherokee, Kansas, United States in 1930. He died on 15 December 1937, in Scammon, Cherokee, Kansas, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Lone Elm Cemetery, Columbus, Cherokee, Kansas, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Linn, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Linn, Kansas, United States
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 (Dorset and Somerset): unexplained.
Dutch: patronymic from a short form of an ancient Germanic personal name composed with the element land ‘land, territory’.
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