When Stephen Arnold Douglas was born on 21 June 1860, in Hardin, Illinois, United States, his father, Jeremiah S Douglas, was 34 and his mother, Nancy Conner, was 33. He married Mary Hannah Oxford on 31 July 1879, in Gallatin, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Cave-in-Rock, Hardin, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Elizabethtown Twp, Hardin, Illinois, United States in 1934. He died on 9 February 1934, in Hardin, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Shawneetown, Gallatin, Illinois, United States.
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Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places called from their situation on a river named with Gaelic dubh ‘dark, black’ + glas ‘stream’ (a derivative of glas ‘blue’). There are several localities in Scotland and Ireland so named, but the one from which the surname is derived in most if not all cases is Douglas in Lanarkshire 20 miles south of Glasgow, the original stronghold of the influential Douglas family and their retainers.
History: The family taking their name from Douglas in Lanarkshire were of Flemish origin. They rose to great prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, controlling the earldoms of Douglas, Morton, and Angus, and later, Queensberry.
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