Brief Life History of Samual A.
When Samual A. Hamlin was born on 25 September 1832, in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathan Sumner Hamlin, was 25 and his mother, Harriet Fletcher, was 32. He married Abbie Fletcher Tower on 21 May 1855, in Nashua, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 9 December 1897, in Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 65, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Samuel A Hamlin, "United States Census, 1880"
- Samuel A. Hamblin, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Samuel A. Hamblin, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
English and Irish: of Norman origin, from the Norman French and Middle English personal name Hamelin, a double diminutive of Hamo (see Hammond ).
French: variant of Hamelin and, in North America, (also) an altered form of this.
Americanized form of Finnish Hämäläinen (see Hamalainen ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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