Brief Life History of Robert P.
When Robert P. Giles was born on 31 July 1820, in Preble, Ohio, United States, his father, John Giles, was 47 and his mother, Prudence Kirkham Elliott, was 37. He married Ann Nelson on 28 March 1849, in Warren, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Sumner Township, Warren, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Jefferson Township, Ringgold, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died on 29 January 1881, in Ringgold, Iowa, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Eugene Cemetery, Eugene, Ringgold, Iowa, United States.
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- Robert Giles, "United States Census, 1860"
- Robert P Giles, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1849" (4th copy)
- Robert Giles, "Iowa Deaths and Burials, 1881"
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1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
1825
Historical Boundaries: 1825: Warren, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from a medieval personal name, Middle English Giles or Gile, a borrowing from Old French Gil(l)e(s). This is from Latin Aegidius and this presumably from Greek aigidion ‘kid, young goat’ (alternatively, it could be a Late Latin formation from the Latin personal name Eggius + the suffix -idius). The personal name was widely used in France and the Low Countries, partly through veneration of Saint Gilles de Provence, supposedly a hermit of the 7th century near Arles; he was patron saint of cripples, hence the dedication of Saint Giles Cripplegate in London, though the personal name itself was less common in England than elsewhere in Europe. See also Gilles .
Irish: adopted as an Anglicized equivalent of Gaelic Ó Glaisne, a County Louth name based on glas ‘green, blue, gray’.
French: variant of Gilles , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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