When Ellis Adams Cobb was born on 1 April 1836, in Orange, Vermont, United States, his father, Timothy Chamberlin Cobb, was 29 and his mother, Mary P. Adams, was 22. He married Emily Skinner on 9 September 1864. He lived in Barton, Orleans, Vermont, United States in 1860 and Vermont, United States in 1870. He died on 18 September 1885, at the age of 49, and was buried in Barton, Orleans, Vermont, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
St. Albans Raid took place on October 19, 1864. It was a Confederate raid from Canada into Union territory. Confederate soldiers that were in Canada raided the town of St. Albans killed one person and robbed three banks.
English and Scottish (Angus): from the Middle English byname or personal name Cobbe, Cobba, or its Old Norse cognate Kobbi, which are probably from an element meaning ‘lump’, used to denote a large man.
Irish: shortened form of McCobb , a patronymic from the personal name Hob, an English pet form of Robert .
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