When Cornelius N. Hackshaw was born about 1856, in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States, his father, Enoch B. Hackshaw, was 36 and his mother, Sophia J. Hewitt, was 33. He married Elizabeth Adelaide Ticknor on 21 December 1882, in Choteau, Chouteau, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1856 and lived in Montana, United States in 1870 and Chouteau, Montana, United States in 1880. He died in August 1889, in Belt, Cascade, Montana, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Miles, Queensland, Australia.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries 1865: Choteau, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Choteau, Montana, United States 1903: Chouteau, Montana, United States 1903: Spelling changed to Chouteau
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English: habitational name from Hackinsall in Lancashire, meaning ‘Hákon's hill’, from the Old Norse personal name Hákon (see Haagen ) + Old English hōh ‘hill-spur’ (later replaced with Old Norse haugr ‘hill’).
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