Brief Life History of Curtis Boone
When Curtis Boone Thompson was born on 23 January 1847, in Jackson, Indiana, United States, his father, Isaac Thompson, was 25 and his mother, Mariah Louise Prince, was 20. He married Polly Ann Guernsey on 17 November 1867, in Jeffersonville, Jeffersonville Township, Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Vernon Township, Jackson, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Center MM, Grant, Indiana, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1865. He died on 21 December 1920, in Columbus, Bartholomew, Indiana, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Tampico, Jackson, Indiana, United States.
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- C B Thompson, "Kansas State Census, 1875"
- Legacy NFS Source: Curtis Boone Thompson - Government record: birth-name: Curtis Boone Thompson
- Curtis B Thompson, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
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1851 · Constitution of 1851
Due to the state’s financial crisis during the previous decade and growing criticism toward state government. Voters approve the Constitution of 1851 which forbade the state government from going into debt.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · Sorry Mr. President, You can't do that.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
Name Meaning
English: patronymic from the Middle English personal name T(h)om(me) (see Thom ) + -son ‘son of Tom’. Thomson is usually the Scottish form, that with the intrusive -p- being English. Both forms are common in Ireland. The surname Thompson is also very common among African Americans.
Americanized form of Danish, Norwegian, and North German Thomsen and of its Swedish cognate Thomsson. Compare Thomson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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