When John Preston Revelle was born on 4 March 1859, in Glenallen, Bollinger, Missouri, United States, his father, Davis Wesley Revelle I, was 61 and his mother, Lydia Johnson, was 37. He married Druscilla Allen McKelvy in February 1887, in Marble Hill, Bollinger, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 2 April 1910, in Advance, Stoddard, Missouri, United States, at the age of 51, and was buried in Arbor, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1869: Bollinger, Missouri, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (of Norman origin): variant of Revell . This surname is now rare in Britain.
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