When Israel Adam Broadsword was born on 23 December 1846, in Ottawa, Putnam, Ohio, United States, his father, John Adam Broadsword, was 26 and his mother, Mary Magdalene Crites, was 24. He married Sarah Elizabeth Hamilton on 18 May 1871, in Doniphan, Kansas, United States. He lived in Grouse Creek Election Precinct, Bonner, Idaho, United States in 1940 and United States in 1949. He registered for military service in 1868. He died on 24 July 1952, in Spokane, Washington, United States, at the age of 105, and was buried in Pinecrest Memorial Park, Bonner, Idaho, United States.
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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.
Historical Boundaries: 1858: Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1864: Stevens, Washington Territory, United States 1879: Spokane, Washington Territory, United States 1889: Spokane, Washington, United States
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
Biblical name, originally the byname (meaning ‘he who strives with God’ in Hebrew) given to Jacob after he had wrestled with an angel: ‘Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed’ (Genesis 32:28). The name was later applied to his descendants, the Children of Israel, and was chosen as the name of the modern Jewish state. The given name was used by the Puritans in the 16th century, but is now once again almost exclusively a Jewish name.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Nineteenth Kansas Volunteers or the Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry was a volunteer cavalry regiment mustered for a six-month service, in 1868, in response to host …
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