Brief Life History of William Bowles
When William Bowles Guthrie was born on 30 December 1844, in Bradysville, Adams, Ohio, United States, his father, F William Guthrie, was 26 and his mother, Katie Emmaline Bowles, was 26. He married Elizabeth Ann Dragoo on 9 July 1865, in Adams, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Tarkio Township, Atchison, Missouri, United States in 1900. He died on 1 January 1904, in Tarkio, Atchison, Missouri, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Tarkio, Atchison, Missouri, United States.
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- Wm Guthier, "United States Census, 1860"
- William Bowler Guthrie, "Find A Grave Index"
- William B Guthrie in entry for William Boles Guthrie, Jr, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish: habitational name from a place near Forfar, named in Gaelic with gaothair ‘windy place’ (a derivative of gaoth ‘wind’) + the locative suffix -ach.
Scottish: possibly an Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mag Uchtre ‘son of Uchtre’, a personal name which is perhaps akin to uchtlach ‘child’.
Irish (Clare and Antrim): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Ó Fhlaithimh ‘descendant of Flaitheamh’, a byname meaning ‘prince’. This is the result of an erroneous association of the Gaelic name in the form Ó Fhlaithimh (Fh being silent), with the Gaelic word laithigh ‘mud’, and of mud with gutters, and an equally erroneous association of the Scottish surname Guthrie with the word ‘gutter’. Compare Laffey .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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