When Eleanor Barsheba Snider was born on 6 January 1850, in Laurel Point, Monongalia, Virginia, United States, her father, Elisha M. Snider, was 39 and her mother, Eleanor Ellen Thorn, was 33. She married John Stephens Downs on 4 April 1867, in Marion, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Monongah, Marion, West Virginia, United States in 1900 and Lincoln District, Marion, West Virginia, United States for about 20 years. She died on 10 October 1931, in Farmington, Marion, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Farmington, Marion, West Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Schneider ‘tailor’ and of its Slavicized (Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, and Croatian) form Šnajder (Czech mostly Šnajdr). The Slovenian and Croatian surname is in most cases derived from the dialect loanword šnajder ‘tailor’. Compare Sneider 1 and Snyder 1.
Dutch: variant, mostly Americanized, of Snieder or Snijder ‘tailor’ (see Snyder 2).
In some cases probably also an Americanized form of Slovenian Žnider: variant of Žnidar, from žnidar ‘tailor’, an archaic word of German origin (see Schneider , compare 1 above and Znidarsic ).
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