When Ambrose Greenwell was born on 23 March 1858, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Henry John Greenwell, was 27 and his mother, Jane Clowes, was 26. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. He died on 18 October 1899, in Warm Springs, Deer Lodge, Montana, United States, at the age of 41, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Information: 1864: Deer Lodge, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Deer Lodge, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Deer Lodge, Montana, United States
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English (Durham and Northumberland): habitational name from Greenwell (Cumbria) or Greenwell in Wolsingham (Durham), Middle English grene ‘green’ + welle ‘spring, stream’. The name may sometimes have been confused with Grindle .
History: The main English family of this name came originally from Greenwell, Wolsingham, County Durham, where they are recorded as owning land as early as 1183.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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