When Margaret Ann Harlan was born on 28 March 1840, in Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, United States, her father, Moses Harlan, was 53 and her mother, Mary Ann Butler, was 42. She married Rosseter Freeman Schoonover on 1 January 1857. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Kewanee, Henry, Illinois, United States in 1910 and Wethersfield Township, Henry, Illinois, United States in 1920. She died on 9 October 1923, in Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Kewanee, Henry, Illinois, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1855: Henry, Illinois, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from any of several minor places called in Old English with hār ‘gray’, hara ‘hare’, or hær ‘rock, tumulus’ + land ‘tract of land, estate, cultivated land’, notably Harland in Kirkbymoorside (North Yorkshire). This surname has also been present in northern Ireland (Armagh and Antrim) since the 17th century, but is now rare in Britain.
History: Harlan County, KY was named for Major Silas Harlan (died 1782). John Marshall Harlan, born in KY in 1833, became a US Supreme Court justice.
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