When Noah Webster Corn was born on 12 January 1843, his father, Mathew Dewitt Corn, was 37 and his mother, Nellie Ellender Neal, was 30. He married Sarah Matilda Capps on 25 April 1867, in Henderson, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Columbus, Polk, North Carolina, United States in 1860 and Eastatoe Township, Transylvania, North Carolina, United States in 1870. He died on 22 May 1917, in Green River Township, Henderson, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 74.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname from Old English corn, a metathesized form of cran ‘crane’ (see Crane ).
English: metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hand mills, Old English cweorn.
Americanized form of German, Dutch, Czech, or Jewish Korn , or a shortened form of any of the composite names formed with this element.
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