When James Corbett Jr. was born on 20 March 1859, in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, James Corbett Sr., was 35 and his mother, Sarah Caroline Lloyd, was 31. He married Sarah Ann Haslam on 11 March 1886. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 7 July 1911, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, 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.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English (West Midlands, of Norman origin): nickname from Old French corbet ‘raven’, probably denoting someone with dark hair or a dark complexion.
History: This is the name of a family descended from Hugh Corbet, a Norman baron who settled in Shropshire following the Norman Conquest. One of his descendants, Sir Richard Corbet, was granted land near Shrewsbury in 1223; since the 13th century, this place has been known as Moreton Corbet. The name was taken from Shropshire to Scotland in the 12th century and to northern Ireland in the 17th century, and thence to North America by at least one group of bearers of the name.
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