When William Elihu Conyers was born on 7 March 1856, in Oregon, United States, his father, Enoch Ward Conyers, was 27 and his mother, Hannah Crane Bryant, was 20. He married Harriet Jane Quigley on 24 January 1892, in Clatskanie, Columbia, Oregon, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Rainier, Columbia, Oregon, United States in 1860 and Clatskanie, Columbia, Oregon, United States for about 30 years. He died on 24 March 1938, in Columbia, Oregon, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Clatskanie, Columbia, Oregon, United States.
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Oregon became the 33rd state admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Great Gale of 1880 was a severe snow and wind storm that devastated parts of Oregon and Washington on January 9, 1880. The extratropical cyclone caused tides to rise seven feet, gale force winds, and snow accumulations of up to 18 inches.
English (Yorkshire, of Norman origin): habitational name from either of two places in northern France, Coignières in Seine-et-Oise or Cogners in Sarthe. Alternatively, a variant of Conyer , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
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