Brief Life History of Charles Winfield
When Charles Winfield Needham was born on 24 November 1852, in DeKalb, DeKalb, Illinois, United States, his father, Benjamin Cooley Needham II, was 37 and his mother, Charlotte M Bowers, was 30. He married Catherine Flesher on 18 August 1878, in Bourbon, Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Fort Scott, Bourbon, Kansas, United States in 1880. He died in 1885, in Fulton, Bourbon, Kansas, United States, at the age of 33.
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- Winfield Needham, "United States Census, 1880"
- C W Needham, "Kansas County Marriages, 1855-1911"
- Chas W Needham in household of Benjamin C Needham, "United States Census, 1860"
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1854
Bleeding Kansas was a time period between the years 1854 and 1861 with a series of violent confrontations over whether slavery would be legal in Kansas Territory.
1857
Historical Boundaries: 1857: Bourbon, Kansas Territory, United States 1861: Bourbon, Kansas, United States
1862 · Kansas Agricultural Society
The Kansas Agricultural Society was formed on March 5, 1862. The society encouraged farmers to grow winter wheat which created the nickname ""bread basket of the world.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places so named, such as High Needham in Hartington (Derbyshire), Needham in Elm (Cambridgeshire), Needham (Norfolk), Needham in Yaxley, Needham Street in Gazeley or Needham Market (all in Suffolk). These places are named with Old English nēd ‘need, hardship’ + hām ‘homestead’, denoting a place that provided a poor living.
Irish (County Mayo): Anglicized form of Ó Niadh, see Nee .
History: English explorer James Needham carried the name to the southern Carolina settlement, arriving from Barbados in 1670 as a young man.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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