When Warren Hale Colby was born on 4 August 1850, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William C Colby Jr, was 20 and his mother, Sophronia Sanborn, was 26. He married Emily J. Dole on 4 July 1872, in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870 and Roxbury, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. He died on 27 March 1911, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 60.
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Abraham Lincoln was Elected President of the United States in November of 1860
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English (eastern): habitational name from Colby in Norfolk and Westmorland, Coleby in Lincolnshire, or Coulby Newham in the North Yorkshire. The Colby placename derives from the Old Norse personal name Koli (a byname for a swarthy person, from kol ‘(char)coal’) + Old Norse býr ‘settlement’.
Americanized form of Norwegian Kolby .
Americanized form of German Kolbe . Compare Kolby .
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