When Zebidah A Webber was born in 1848, in New York City, New York, United States, his father, Levi V Webber, was 41 and his mother, Eliza Ann Ellsworth, was 38. He lived in Farmersville, Cattaraugus, New York, United States for about 10 years.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English (Devon and Somerset): occupational name for a weaver, from Middle English webber, an agent derivative of Webb .
Americanized form of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Weber ‘weaver’.
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