When Abram B. Westbrook was born in May 1834, in Steuben, New York, United States, his father, Abram Westbrook, was 35 and his mother, Rhoda Meeker, was 30. He lived in Bradford, Steuben, New York, United States in 1850. He died in 1854, in Steuben, New York, United States, at the age of 20, and was buried in South Bradford Cemetery, South Bradford, Bradford, Steuben, New York, United States.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (southeastern): habitational name from any of various places called Westbrook, for example in Berkshire, Kent, and the Isle of Wight, from Old English west ‘west, western’ + brōc ‘brook, stream’.
Americanized form of Dutch Westbroek: habitational name from a place so named near Utrecht.
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