When John W Minzes was born on 20 July 1862, in Missouri, United States, his father, Ewing Shelbey Minzes, was 46 and his mother, Sophronia Buttram, was 42. He lived in Prairie Plains, Grimes, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 26 May 1910, in Tatum, Rusk, Texas, United States, at the age of 47.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
"On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: ""The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."""
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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Gunter, Kurt.
Altered form of Scottish Menzies , reflecting the traditional Scottish pronunciation of that name.
German: variant of Menges 1 or 2.
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