When Cyrus Happy was born on 28 January 1845, in Pinckneyville, Perry, Illinois, United States, his father, Bergin Happy, was 34 and his mother, Mary Williams, was 27. He married Minna Mary Prickett on 11 September 1879, in Madison, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870 and Edwardsville, Madison, Illinois, United States in 1880. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 14 February 1938, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Ulm, Cascade, Montana, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1864: Stevens, Washington Territory, United States 1879: Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Spokane, Washington, United States
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Lheureux .
Americanized form of German Hoppe .
English (London) and Scottish: apparently from Middle English or Scots happi ‘prosperous, lucky; skillful’. It may sometimes also be a recent translation or adaptation, in the sense ‘happy’, of an immigrant surname such as German Gluck or French Lheureux (see 1 above), but in Britain there is no clear evidence for this. This surname is now rare in Britain.
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