When Della Violet "Lilla" McDougall was born on 30 October 1874, in Indiana, United States, her father, Dougold McDougall, was 31 and her mother, Ruth Joyce, was 30. She married Elisha George Gilliland on 20 September 1898, in Auburn, Nemaha, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Bachelor Township, Greenwood, Kansas, United States in 1910 and Walnut Township, Bourbon, Kansas, United States for about 30 years. She died on 28 September 1962, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 87, and was buried in Hiattville, Bourbon, Kansas, United States.
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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.
The town of Nicodemus was founded by African-American migrants from Kansas in 1877.
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhghaill, ‘son of Dubhghall’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘black’ + gall ‘stranger’. This was originally a byname used to distinguish the darker-haired Danes from the fair-haired Norwegians. Compare McDowell and Doyle .
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