When Lyman Tharp was born on 23 November 1843, in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, his father, Joel H. Thorp, was 37 and his mother, Hannah Maria Mattoon, was 33. He married Fanny E. Addis on 7 September 1865, in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He died before 1920, in Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States, and was buried in Northfield, Litchfield, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: variant of Thorpe .
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