Brief Life History of James Howard
When James Howard Halbert was born in July 1856, in Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Silas Halbert, was 24 and his mother, Nancy Jane Cason, was 21. He married Jennie Lyman on 8 December 1886, in Warner, Brown, South Dakota, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Illinois, United States in 1870. He died on 16 December 1907, in Warner, Brown, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Warner Cemetery, Warner, Brown, South Dakota, United States.
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- J Howard Halbert in household of Elihu Halbert, "United States Census, 1870"
- James Howard Halbert, "Find A Grave Index"
- James H Halbert, "South Dakota, State Census, 1905"
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World Events (8)
1858 · A House Divided
Abraham Lincoln's goal was to be different than the previous Senators of Illinois and voice his opinion in how he saw the State and the United States start to drift apart in the different ideology on what was right and what was wrong. Even though it would become an unsuccessful campaign strategy to win the senate seat, to this day it is one of the most famous speeches of US politics.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Scottish (mainly Glasgow): probably a variant of Hulbert . Black suggests that the name derives from halberd, halbert, the medieval weapon, but there is no clear evidence for this.
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Halberht, composed of the elements hal ‘hidden, mysterious’ and berht ‘bright’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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