Horace Kilbourn

Brief Life History of Horace

When Horace Kilbourn was born on 11 November 1809, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Joseph Kilbourn, was 44 and his mother, Hannah Sellew, was 40. He married Mary Young in 1858, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He died on 13 June 1867, in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 57, and was buried in Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.

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Family Time Line

Horace Kilbourn
1809–1867
Mary Young
1840–
Marriage: 1858
Dr. Joseph Austin Kilbourn
1860–1934
John Kilbourn
1865–
Rosella Kilbourne
1867–

Sources (14)

  • Horace Kilbourn in household of Joseph Kilbourn, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Horace Kilborn, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
  • Horace Kilbourn, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"

Name Meaning

English (mainly Leicestershire): variant of Kilburn .

Possibly also an Americanized form of German Kühlborn: habitational name from a place so named in former East Prussia; the meaning of the name being kühl ‘cool’ + born ‘well, spring’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Joseph Austin Kilbourn, MD - Life Sketch and Genealogy

“JOSEPH AUSTIN KILBOURN, M. D., a leading medical practitioner of Hartford, is a native of Connecticut, born Nov. 1, 1860, in Glastonbury, Hartford county, and is a member of an honored old New Englan …

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