Brief Life History of Henry Clay
When Henry Clay Cornelius was born in January 1844, in Howard, Missouri, United States, his father, Levi Cornelius, was 50 and his mother, Frances Bozarth, was 41. He married Mary Amanda Moore in 1862, in Kansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Silver City, Mills, Iowa, United States in 1880 and Visalia, Tulare, California, United States in 1900. He died after 1910, in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States.
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- H C Cornelius, "United States Census, 1870"
- Henry Clay Cornelius, "California Great Registers, 1866-1910"
- N C Cornelius, "United States Census, 1880"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1854
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.
1862 · Kansas Agricultural Society
The Kansas Agricultural Society was formed on March 5, 1862. The society encouraged farmers to grow winter wheat which created the nickname ""bread basket of the world.
Name Meaning
Dutch, German, Danish, and southern English: from the Latin personal name Cornelius (originally an old Roman surname, probably derived from cornu ‘horn’), borne by a 3rd-century pope and Christian saint. In England, this name is rarely found before the 16th century, when the name was brought to England from the Low Countries by Protestants, among whom it was also a popular name in the vernacular form Cornelis. In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of the German or Dutch variant Kornelius.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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