When Rosa Belle Warner was born on 4 March 1862, in Albion, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, her father, William Adams Warner, was 46 and her mother, Maria Jane Finch, was 41. She married Millard Fillmore Stowe on 4 March 1895, in Albion, Calhoun, Michigan, United States. She lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1935 and Highland Park, Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1940. She died on 7 April 1948, in Highland Park, Wayne, Michigan, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Riverside Cemetery, Albion, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
During the mid-19th century, attempts were made to ship perishable products by rail. The Western Railroad of Massachusetts was the first to experiment with the concept, but it was only functional in cold weather. In 1868, William Davis, of Detroit, patented a refrigerator car that used a frozen mixture of ice and salt to keep everything cold for shipment. It could be used in all weather and in all seasons. He sold the design to George H. Hammond, a Detroit meat packer, who built a set of cars to transport his products to Boston using ice from the Great Lakes for cooling.
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
English (of Norman origin) and North German: from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements war(in) ‘protection, shelter’ or ‘guard’ + heri, hari ‘army’. The name was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Warnier (Old French Garnier). Compare Garner and Werner .
English (of Norman origin): shortened form of Warrener (see Warren 2).
Irish (Cork): when this is not the Anglo-Norman name (see above), an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Murnáin (see Murnane ), found in medieval records as Iwarrynane, from a genitive or plural form of the name, in which m is lenited.
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