Brief Life History of Winfield A
When Winfield A Scott was born on 29 June 1848, in Washington, Indiana, United States, his father, Samuel Scott, was 38 and his mother, Mariah Stuart, was 36. He married Almira S March on 12 March 1871, in Davis, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Vernon Township, Washington, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Keya Paha, Nebraska, United States in 1885. He died on 1 July 1915, in Leadore, Lemhi, Idaho, United States, at the age of 67, and was buried in Camas, Idaho, United States.
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- Winfield Scott in household of Samuel Scott, "United States Census, 1860"
- Winfield Scott, "Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992"
- Winfield A. Scott, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
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.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish (Down): habitational and ethnic name from Middle English Scot ‘man from Scotland’. There is no evidence that the surname denoted either of the earlier senses of Scot as ‘(Gaelic-speaking) Irishman’ or ‘man from Alba’, the Gaelic-speaking region of Scotland north of the river Forth. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
English and Scottish: from the rare Middle English personal name Scot (Old English Scott, possibly also Old Norse Skotr), only certainly attested in northern England.
English: variant of Scutt .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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