When Lewis Liebrock was born on 17 August 1851, in Ohio, United States, his father, George Francis Liebrock Sr, was 25 and his mother, Mary W Webber, was 15. He married Elizabeth Lebo about 1872, in Essex, Essex, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Mersea Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years and Lakefield, Township of Lakefield, Saginaw, Michigan, United States for about 16 years. He died on 14 April 1918, in Township of Lakefield, Saginaw, Michigan, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Lakefield Cemetery, Lakefield, Township of Lakefield, Saginaw, Michigan, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Some characteristic forenames: German Joerg, Lorenz, Mathias.
North German: topographic name from the name of a swampy region on the Weser near Bremen, from vi ‘swampy woods’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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