When Samuel Handshoe was born on 14 April 1846, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States, his father, Samuel Hanshoe, was 18 and his mother, Mary Jane Allen, was 15. He married Henrietta Conley on 2 May 1872, in Floyd, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Greenup, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 4, Knox, Kentucky, United States in 1900. He died on 12 July 1925, in Knott, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Knott, Kentucky, United States.
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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Americanized form (literal translation into English) of German Handschuh ‘glove’.
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