When Samuel Harbour was born on 11 November 1849, in Auburn, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, his father, Levi J. Harbour Sr., was 22 and his mother, Cyntha Samantha Bilyeu, was 22. He married Mary Elizabeth Workman on 30 December 1869, in Sangamon, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Sangamon, Illinois, United States in 1860 and Loami, Sangamon, Illinois, United States for about 41 years. He died on 25 September 1917, in Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Campbell Cemetery, Loami Township, Sangamon, Illinois, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1855: Sangamon, Illinois, United States
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 The Amendment was later repealed.
English: nickname or topographic name for someone who kept or lived at a lodging-house, from late Old English herebeorg ‘shelter, lodging’ (from here ‘army’ + beorg ‘shelter’). The change of -er- to -ar- is a regular phonetic process in Middle English. Compare Harbach .
French: variant of Arbour . This form of the surname is virtually non-existing in France.
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