Brief Life History of Henry H.
When Henry H. Pyle was born on 8 January 1848, in East Fallowfield Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James B Pyle, was 40 and his mother, Susan Baker Hayes, was 33. He married Mary Ida Marshall on 16 May 1877, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 9 daughters. He died on 29 July 1897, in West Marlborough Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 49.
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- Harry Pyle, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Henry H Pyle - Government record: Census record: birth-name: Henry H Pyle
- Henry H. Pyle, "Pennsylvania, Marriages, 1709-1940"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1863 · Battle of Gettysburg
The three day Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War. Between the Confederates and Unions, somewhere between 46,000 and 51,000 people died that day.
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
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.
Name Meaning
English: from Middle English pile ‘stake, post’ (via Old English from Latin pilum ‘spike, javelin’), hence a topographic name for someone who lived near a stake or post serving as a landmark, or sometimes perhaps a nickname for a tall thin person.
Americanized form of Dutch Pijl: metonymic occupational name for a marksman or an arrowsmith, from pijl ‘arrow’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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