When James B Bicknell was born on 18 February 1842, in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, his father, Benjamin Bicknell, was 42 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Wells, was 43. He married Abby Frances Cahoone on 25 March 1866, in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 16 January 1868, in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The US Naval Academy was moved to Newport, Rhode Island from its original in Annapolis, Maryland on May 9, 1862.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: habitational name from Bickenhill in Warwickshire, Bickenhall in Somerset or Bignell in Oxfordshire. The former two are named with the Old English personal name Bicca + Old English hyll ‘hill’, but in the Somerset name the final element alternates with Old English h(e)all ‘hall’. Bignell is named with the Old English personal name Biga + hyll ‘hill’. Compare Bignell .
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