When John Douglas Pritchett was born on 12 November 1853, in Marion, Smyth, Virginia, United States, his father, William Dekalb Pritchett, was 29 and his mother, Barbara Ellen Fulcher, was 25. He married Elizabeth Eames on 31 December 1874, in Riverdale, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1864 and lived in Birchcreek, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1910 and Jefferson, Montana, United States in 1920. He died on 3 August 1935, in Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Salmon City Cemetery, Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1864: Jefferson, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Jefferson, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Jefferson, Montana, United States
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.
Welsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Rhisiart ‘son ofRichard’. Compare Pritchard .
English (Midlands): from a diminutive of Middle English prik(e), prich ‘point’, ‘prick’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of any of various pointed instruments, or a nickname for a tall, thin man.
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