When Andrew Jackson Webb was born on 9 May 1856, in Carroll, Missouri, United States, his father, Larkin Marion Webb, was 30 and his mother, Sicily Jane Hudson, was 31. He married Flora H. Strider on 31 October 1878, in Carroll, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Crooked River Township, Ray, Missouri, United States in 1900 and Madison Township, Cedar, Missouri, United States in 1910. He died on 30 May 1943, in Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States, at the age of 87.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
English: occupational name for a weaver, from early Middle English webbe (Old English webba (masculine) or webbe (feminine), probably used of both male and female weavers). This word survived into Middle English long enough to give rise to the surname, but was already obsolescent as an agent noun; hence the secondary forms with the agent suffixes -er and -ster (see Webster , Webber and compare Weaver ).
Americanized form of various like-sounding Jewish (Ashkenazic) surnames, cognates of 1, including Weber and Weberman.
History: Richard Webb, a Lowland Scot, was an admitted freeman of Boston in 1632, and in 1635 was one of the first settlers of Hartford, CT.
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