When John Livingston Newcomb was born on 30 June 1841, in Catskill, Catskill, Greene, New York, United States, his father, Hiram Newcomb, was 29 and his mother, Rachel Elizabeth Stryker, was 25. He married Mary Elizabeth Kelley on 20 June 1860, in Kirksville, Adair, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 6 January 1906, in Nebraska, United States, at the age of 64.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On May 30, 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery within their borders. This Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English: nickname for a new arrival in a place, from Middle English newe-comen, newe-come ‘newly arrived, recently come’ (Old English nīwe + cumen, cuma). The intrusive -b- is the result of the influence of placenames ending in Old English cumb ‘valley’ (see Coombe ). No such placename as Newcombe is actually on record in Britain.
Americanized form of German Neukamm, possibly arising from a misinterpretation of its etymology as neu ‘new’ + Kamm ‘comb’ (see Neukam ).
History: According to family tradition, Capt. Andrew Newcomb was born in England in 1618 and died in Boston, MA, in 1686, leaving family who settled both in MA and in Kittery, ME. Among his descendants was the internationally renowned astronomer Simon Newcomb (1835–1909).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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