Brief Life History of Samuel
Samuel James was born on 18 January 1806, in Pennsylvania, United States as the son of William James and Elizabeth Gallaher. He married Maria Evans on 6 January 1841, in Montrose, Lee, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870 and Carroll, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died after 1880, in Illinois, United States.
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- Saml James, "United States Census, 1880"
- Samuel James, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"
- Samuel James in entry for Robert Link and Isabel James, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"
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1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1832 · Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English and Welsh: from the Middle English personal name James. Introduced to England by the Normans, this is an Old French form of Late Latin Iacomus, a variant of Latin Iacobus, Greek Iakōbos, the New Testament rendering of Hebrew Ya‘aqob (see Jacob ). The medieval Latin (Vulgate) Bible distinguished between Old Testament Iacob (which was uninflected) and New Testament Iacobus (with inflections). The latter developed into James in medieval French. The distinction was carried over into the King James Bible of 1611, and Jacob and James remain as separate names in English usage. Most European languages, however, make no such distinction, so that forms such as French Jacques , stand for both the Old and the New Testament names. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Compare Jack .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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