When Ella Missimer was born on 9 March 1854, her father, John Brownback Missimer, was 39 and her mother, Cornelia Kemmerer, was 32. She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States for about 20 years. She died on 2 March 1909, at the age of 54, and was buried in Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
German: variant of Messimer .
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