When Jacob Benson Kuhns was born on 20 December 1835, in Berlin, Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Michael Kuhns, was 24 and his mother, Sarah Bittinger, was 26. He married Susanna Younkin on 23 March 1859. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Pennsylvania, United States in 1870 and Saltlick Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States for about 30 years. He died on 5 January 1925, in Champion, Saltlick Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Indian Head, Saltlick Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Americanized form of German Kunz . Compare Kunes 3.
German: patronymic from Kuhn or a habitational name from a place so named in former Silesia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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