When Roger Newton Webster was born on 29 August 1844, in Weathersfield, Windsor, Vermont, United States, his father, Samuel Porter Webster, was 40 and his mother, Adaline Haskell, was 38. He married Lora Elizabeth Wilson on 20 February 1875, in Bethany, Harrison, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 daughters. He lived in Lyme, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States for about 10 years and Pleasant Prairie, Spokane, Washington, United States in 1900. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 2 August 1917, in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Riverside Park, Bibb, Georgia, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
English and Scottish: occupational name for a weaver, from Middle English webbester ‘weaver’ (Old English webbestre ‘female weaver’). By the time of surname formation, the gender distinction of the -stre suffix had almost completely disappeared. Compare Webb , Webber , and Weaver .
History: The name Webster was brought to North America from England independently by several different bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. One John Webster settled in Ipswich, MA, in 1635; another John Webster (died 1661), ancestor of the lexicographer Noah Webster, emigrated to Cambridge, MA, c. 1631 and later became one of the founders of the colony of CT, of which he was appointed governor in 1656. Daniel Webster (1782–1852), politician and orator, was born in Salisbury, NH, a descendant of Thomas Webster, a prominent 17th-century citizen of Ipswich, MA, whose family had settled there around 1635, while he was still a child.
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