When James H Siddens was born in May 1862, in Liberty Township, Warren, Indiana, United States, his father, William Thomas Siddens, was 41 and his mother, Rachel Weaver, was 37. He married Amanda Conklin on 19 December 1885, in Vermilion, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Vermilion, Illinois, United States in 1900 and Qu'Appelle, South Qu'Appelle No. 157, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1906.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In 1871, a cow kicked over a lantern, causing a fire that burned down half of Chicago. Today this city is the third largest in the US.
Also known as the Chicago World's Fair, The Exposition was held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the New World. The centerpiece of the Fair was a large water pool that represented Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to the Americas. The Fair had a profound effect on new architecture designs, sanitation advancement, and the arts. The Fairgrounds were given the nickname the White City due to its lavish paint and materials used to constuct it. Over 27 million people attended the fair during its six-month of operation. Among many of the invetions exhibited there was the first Ferris wheel built to rival the Eiffel Tower in France.
English (Staffordshire): variant of Siddons .
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