Brief Life History of William Wesley aka Wesley
When William Wesley aka Wesley Ruble was born in 1840, in Highland, Ohio, United States, his father, John Ruble, was 42 and his mother, Sarah Coffman, was 36.
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
South German: metonymic occupational name for a beet grower, from Middle High German ruobe ‘beet’ + the diminutive suffix -le.
German (Rüble): from the personal name Rubele, Rübele, pet forms of Ruprecht (see Rupprecht ).
Americanized form of German Rubel , a surname partly of Sorbian origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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