When William Alva Row was born on 17 November 1856, in Junior, Barbour, West Virginia, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson B. Row, was 22 and his mother, Delilah Jane Ann Williams, was 18. He married Sarah E Coffman on 14 December 1875, in Barbour, West Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in West Virginia, United States in 1870 and Barker Twp, Barbour, West Virginia, United States for about 40 years. He died on 30 March 1928, in Junior, Barbour, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Junior, Barbour, West Virginia, United States.
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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.
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: variant of Rowe .
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