When James Thomas Jolly was born on 12 November 1859, in Fountain, Indiana, United States, his father, John Lowrey Jolly, was 31 and his mother, Matilda Hester Ann Van Cleave, was 30. He married Effie A. Barrow on 25 December 1888, in Holt, Nebraska, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Shoshone, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Toledo, Lewis, Washington, United States in 1910. He died on 9 September 1912, in Orofino, Clearwater, Idaho, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Fraser Cemetery, Clearwater, Idaho, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1861: Shoshone, Washington Territory, United States 1863: Shoshone, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Shoshone, Idaho, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English, Scottish, and French: nickname for someone of a cheerful or attractive disposition, from Middle English, Old French jolif, joli ‘cheerful, lively, pretty’. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the most common French variant Joly .
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