Brief Life History of Henry Lincoln
When Henry Lincoln Whittier was born on 12 April 1853, in Rockport, Knox, Maine, United States, his father, John Colby Whittier, was 39 and his mother, Rebecca Burgess, was 38. He married Lizzie Haines on 22 December 1881, in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Pacific Township, Humboldt, California, United States in 1910 and McKittrick, Kern, California, United States in 1920. He died on 16 August 1930, in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Modesto, Stanislaus, California, United States.
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- Henry L Whittier, "United States Census, 1930"
- Henry L. Whittier, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
- Henry L Whittier, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
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1860
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Waldo, Maine, United States 1860: Knox, Maine, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a dresser of white leather, someone who tawed skins into whitleather, from Middle English whīt ‘white’ + tawyere, towyere, tewere, an agent noun from West Saxon Old English tāwian, Anglian tēwian ‘to taw’.
History: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–92), poet and active opponent of slavery, was descended from Thomas Whittier, who came to MA from England in 1638.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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