Brief Life History of Ozro E
When Ozro E Powers was born on 15 September 1846, in Hollis, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Harvey Alphonso Powers, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Adeline Colburn, was 26. He married Luciene Pomeroy in 1879, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1880 and New Haven, Connecticut, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 16 December 1929, in Meriden, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 83, and was buried in Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford Center, Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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- Ozro E. Powers, "Connecticut, Military Census Questionnaires, 1917"
- Ozro E Powers, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Ozro E. Powers, "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
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1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1868 · Impeach the President!
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
Name Meaning
English (Warwickshire and Lancashire): variant of Power , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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