Brief Life History of Elam Dowden
When Dr Elam Dowden Gall was born on 20 November 1856, in Arden, Barbour, West Virginia, United States, his father, George Washington Gall Sr., was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Talbott, was 36. He married Effie Columbia Matlick on 25 April 1888. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Barbour, Virginia, United States in 1860 and Pleasant District, Barbour, West Virginia, United States for about 10 years. He died on 16 November 1894, in Barbour, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Masonic Memorial Park, West Union, Doddridge, West Virginia, United States.
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- E D Gall in household of George W Gall, "United States Census, 1860"
- Elam D. Gall, "West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928"
- Elam D Gall, "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970"
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1861 · The Battle of Manassas
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
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 The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
Scottish, Welsh, and Irish: nickname from Celtic gall ‘foreigner, stranger’, a word found in Irish, Gaelic, and Breton. In the Scottish Highlands the Gaelic term gall was applied to people from the English-speaking lowlands and to Scandinavians; in Ireland the same term was applied to settlers who arrived from Wales and England in the wake of the Anglo-Norman invasion of the 12th century. This surname is also found at an early date in Lincolnshire, where it apparently has a Breton origin (compare 4 below and Legall ), having been introduced by Breton followers of the Norman Conquerors.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Gale .
French, German, Danish, Polish, and Czech; Slovak (mainly Gáll); Hungarian (Gáll): from the Latin personal name Gallus, originally a Roman surname meaning ‘Gaul’ or ‘rooster’ (see Gallo 2). The name was widespread in Europe during the Middle Ages, in central Europe largelly due to the cult of a 7th-century Irish monk and missionary, Saint Gall, whose name, Latinized as Gallus, is presumably of Celtic origin (see 1 above). Among other things, Saint Gall established a Christian settlement to the south of Lake Constance, which became the monastery later known as St. Gallen. The Latin(ized) name Gallus was taken into Czech as Havel , into Polish as Gaweł (see Gawel ), into Slovak and Hungarian as Gál (see Gal ), and into Slovenian and Croatian as Gal .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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