Brief Life History of Albert Curtis
When Albert Curtis Andrews was born on 22 July 1846, in Newburgh Township, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, his father, Andrew Andrews, was 29 and his mother, Corintha Andrus, was 24. He married Emily A Soule on 14 December 1873, in Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States for about 50 years. He died on 18 January 1932, at the age of 85, and was buried in Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Albert Andren in household of A Andren, "United States Census, 1850"
- Albert C. Andrews, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Albert C Andrews, "Find A Grave Index"
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1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
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
English: variant of Andrew , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates from other languages, e.g. Polish Andrzejewski , Slovenian Andrejčič, Serbian and Croatian Andrić (see Andric ), and Czech Ondráček (see Ondracek ).
Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac Aindreis or Irish Mac Aindriú, see McAndrew .
History: This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport's company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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