When Abram Quackenbush was born on 17 March 1854, in Wisconsin, United States, his father, Richard E. Quackenbush, was 22 and his mother, Ellen Mary Reed, was 21. He married Eliza A Lashbrook in 1890. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Bradford, Rock, Wisconsin, United States in 1860 and Berlin, Green Lake, Wisconsin, United States in 1880. He died on 30 January 1943, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Americanized form of Dutch Quackenbosch: topographic name from Dutch kwak ‘night heron’ + bosch ‘woodland, wilderness’. The surname Quackenbosch is no longer found in the Netherlands. Compare Quakenbush .
History: Quackenbosch was the name of a prominent Dutch family in Beverwyck in New Netherland (now Albany, NY) in the 17th century. The family was associated with the early brick-making industry in Fort Orange-Beverwyck. A house built by them in the early 1700s still stands; it is the oldest surviving house in Albany.
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