When Dianah Ellen Webster was born on 26 May 1845, in Morning Sun, Louisa, Iowa, United States, her father, David D Webster, was 34 and her mother, Susan Holland, was 31. She married Joseph Fenton Higbee on 13 August 1862. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Jefferson, Iowa, United States for about 10 years and Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1920. She died on 6 June 1925, in Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa, United States, at the age of 80.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Louisa, Iowa, United States
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, from Middle English webbester ‘weaver’ (Old English webbestre ‘female weaver’). By the time of surname formation, the gender distinction of the -stre suffix had almost completely disappeared. Compare Webb , Webber , and Weaver .
History: The name Webster was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One John Webster settled in Ipswich, MA, in 1635; another John Webster (died 1661), ancestor of the lexicographer Noah Webster, emigrated to Cambridge, MA, c. 1631 and later became one of the founders of the colony of CT, of which he was appointed governor in 1656. Daniel Webster (1782–1852), politician and orator, was born in Salisbury, NH, a descendant of Thomas Webster, a prominent 17th-century citizen of Ipswich, MA, whose family had settled there around 1635, while he was still a child.
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