When Laura Starlight Quimby was born in 1860, in Sharon, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Charles Stewart Quimby, was 54 and her mother, Laura Almira Adams, was 39. She lived in Hickory Township, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 31 January 1892, in Sharon, Mercer, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 32.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
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.
English (Staffordshire and Warwickshire): habitational name from Whenby (North Yorkshire). The placename derives from Old Norse kvenna, genitive plural of kona ‘woman’, + bȳ ‘farmstead, village’.
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