When Thomas B Hepford was born on 6 December 1854, in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, David Hepford, was 40 and his mother, Susannah Lingel, was 40. He died on 3 January 1902, in Harrisburg, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Susquehanna Township, Dauphin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English: variant of Hereford .
German: variant of Herfurth .
German: habitational name from a place of that name in Westphalia.
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