When Howard Knowlton Coray was born on 10 April 1842, in Augusta, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, his father, Howard Coray, was 24 and his mother, Martha Jane Knowlton, was 19. He married Mary Elizabeth Lusk on 15 September 1872, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Mona, Juab, Utah, United States in 1880 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He died on 28 October 1928, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 86.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1848: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1868: Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
English: habitational name from any of various places in northern England. Those in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire are named with the Old Norse personal name Kori (see Cory ) + Old Norse býr ‘farm, settlement’, whereas the one in Cumbria has as its first element the Old Irish personal name Corc.
French: nickname from a diminutive of corb ‘crow’.
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