When Isham Irby was born on 12 January 1841, in Sarcoxie, Jasper, Missouri, United States, his father, Easton Irby, was 25 and his mother, Melvina Bailey, was 20. He married Ann Thomas on 11 December 1867, in Aurora, Lawrence, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Stone, Missouri, United States in 1900 and DeBaca, New Mexico, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 12 September 1934, in Bowie, Texas, United States, at the age of 93, and was buried in Texarkana, Bowie, Texas, United States.
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Over 7,000 German immigrants arrived in Texas. Some of these new arrivals died in epidemics; those that survived ended up living in cities such as San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston. Other German settlers went to the Texas Hill Country and formed the western portion of the German Belt, where new towns were founded: New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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: habitational name from any of various places called Irby in Lincolnshire, Cheshire, and North Yorkshire, or Ireby (Cumberland and Lancashire), all named from Old Norse Írabýr ‘settlement of the Irish’. Compare Ireton .
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