Brief Life History of Loreta
When Loreta Corbin was born on 6 April 1834, in Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Herman Corbin, was 27 and her mother, Calista Knowlton, was 26. She married Roswell Needham on 3 May 1857. She lived in Union, Tolland, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America in 1850 and Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut, United States for about 10 years. She died on 15 December 1875, at the age of 41, and was buried in Staffordville, Stafford, Tolland, Connecticut, United States.
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- Lauretta Needham in household of Roswell Needham, "United States Census, 1860"
- Loretta Needham in household of Roswell Needham, "United States Census, 1870"
- Loretta Corbin in household of Herman Corbin, "United States Census, 1850"
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World Events (7)
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.
1848 · Slavery is Abolished
In 1840, the American Anti-Slavery Society split and slavery started being outlawed in the state. In Canterbury, Connecticut, Prudence Crandall started a school for young African American girls. The people got mad and Crandall was taken to court. The case was lost and that was the beginning of many other cases that would be lost, but it was also the start of having slavery abolished.
Name Meaning
French and English: nickname meaning ‘little crow, raven’, possibly applied to a black haired man, from Old French, Middle English corbin, a diminutive of corb ‘raven’ (Anglo-Norman French corbin, corfbin ‘crow, raven’).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from any of the places in Calvados and Orne, France, named Corbon.
Irish: variant of Corban .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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