When Charles Bennet Bronson was born on 13 October 1836, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Horace C Bronson, was 26 and his mother, Sarah French, was 26. He married Elizabeth Matilda Sparks on 16 October 1861, in Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He lived in Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut, United States in 1850. He died on 19 August 1874, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: variant of Brunson .
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