When Celia J Howard was born on 27 December 1860, in Union Township, Clermont, Ohio, United States, her father, James C Howard, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth J Andrews, was 17. She married Thomas Henry Douglas on 29 December 1878, in Goshen Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in Ohio, United States in 1932 and Mechanicsburg, Monroe, Ohio, United States in 1932. She died on 19 July 1932, in Urbana, Urbana Township, Champaign, Ohio, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mechanicsburg, Monroe, Ohio, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Urbana was incorporated as a city in 1868.
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: of Norman origin, from the Middle English personal names Huward (also Howard) and Heward, from Old French Huard (itself from ancient Germanic Hugihard, hugi- ‘mind, understanding, spirit’ + hard- ‘hardy, bold’). As Hugh appears in Middle English as both How and Hew, this is the definite origin of Heward and a source of Howard. This surname is also very common among African Americans. See Hugh .
English: from the Middle English personal name Haward or Howard, usually an Anglicized form of Old Danish Hāwarth (Old Norse Hávarthr, from há ‘high’ + varthr ‘guard, guardian, warden’). Alternation between Haward and Howard may have led to later confusion with Hayward .
English: occasionally a variant of Ewart 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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