When John Wesley Ambrose was born in July 1848, in Morgan, West Virginia, United States, his father, William Henry Ambrose, was 34 and his mother, Anna Eliza Virginia Snowdeal, was 27. He married Serilda Jane Seago on 12 November 1868, in Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Election Precinct 7 North Fork, Grant, Oregon, United States in 1900 and Canyon City, Grant, Oregon, United States in 1910. He died on 3 November 1917, in Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park, Portland, Multnomah, Oregon, United States.
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Historical Boundaries - 1861: Wasco, Oregon, United States 1862: Umatilla, Oregon, United States 1864: Grant, Oregon, United States
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
English and Scottish: from the personal name Ambrose (French Ambroise, Latin Ambrosius, from Greek ambrosios ‘immortal, divine’), which was popular throughout Christendom in medieval Europe. Its popularity was due in part to the fame of Saint Ambrose (c. 340–397), one of the four Latin Fathers of the Church, the teacher of Saint Augustine. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Czech, Slovenian, and Croatian Ambrož (see Ambroz ), and also their derivatives, e.g. the Slovenian patronymic Ambrožič.
Irish: from Mac Ambróis ‘son of Ambrose’ (see 1 above); a West Munster name, which has also been Anglicized as McCambridge .
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