When Orson Douglas Romney was born on 15 August 1860, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Romney, was 29 and his mother, Vilate Ellen Douglass, was 19. He married Emma Frances Phillips on 4 September 1884, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Utah, United States in 1870 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 40 years. He registered for military service in 1895. He died on 16 June 1941, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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After discovery of gold in Gabriel's Gully, hundreds of miners and precious metal hunters flocked to New Zealand to be a part of the frenzy. This influx of people caused new settlements to pop up and different innovation techniques to begin. After a few years of steady success, the gold began to be more difficult to find. While some stayed, most of the prospectors left until most of the settlements, which they had founded, became Ghost Towns with only a few residents staying around.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
English: habitational name from Romney (Kent), from an uncertain first element (perhaps an Old English personal name Rūmen) + Old English ēa ‘river, stream’. Compare Rye 2.
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