When Solomon H Imes was born on 7 April 1846, in Pine Grove, Elizabeth Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, his father, Hiram H Imes, was 23 and his mother, Mary Cecil, was 18. He married Nancy Sharp on 28 December 1868, in Lawrence, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Upper Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 September 1885, in Vesuvius, Elizabeth Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Upper Township, Lawrence, Ohio, United States.
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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.
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 The Amendment was later repealed.
Altered form of English Iams .
English: unexplained. This surname is virtually non-existing in Britain.
Probably also an Americanized form of North German Eims: patronymic from a short form of the ancient Germanic personal name Agimo, formed with agi ‘point, edge (of a sword)’.
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