When Effie Elizabeth Newcomb was born on 7 January 1856, in Quincy, Adams, Iowa, United States, her father, Henry Cook Newcomb, was 37 and her mother, Achsa "Axie" Bracket, was 33. She married Jacob Fox Bowles on 3 July 1874, in Cass, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Quincy Township, Adams, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Edna Township, Cass, Iowa, United States in 1870. She died on 15 February 1879, in Washington, Kansas, United States, at the age of 23.
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The Capitol was located in Iowa City until the 1st General Assembly of Iowa recognized that the Capitol should be moved farther west than Iowa City. Land was found two miles from the Des Moines River to start construction of the new building. Today the Capitol building still stands on its original plot.
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Washington, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Washington, Kansas, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname for a new arrival in a place, from Middle English newe-comen, newe-come ‘newly arrived, recently come’ (Old English nīwe + cumen, cuma). The intrusive -b- is the result of the influence of placenames ending in Old English cumb ‘valley’ (see Coombe ). No such placename as Newcombe is actually on record in Britain.
Americanized form of German Neukamm, possibly arising from a misinterpretation of its etymology as neu ‘new’ + Kamm ‘comb’ (see Neukam ).
History: According to family tradition, Capt. Andrew Newcomb was born in England in 1618 and died in Boston, MA, in 1686, leaving family who settled both in MA and in Kittery, ME. Among his descendants was the internationally renowned astronomer Simon Newcomb (1835–1909).
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