When John Brown Donaldson was born on 27 November 1838, in Canonsburg, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Robert Donaldson, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Brown, was 25. He had at least 2 sons and 2 daughters with Sarah Cook. He died on 3 December 1924, in Erie, Erie, Pennsylvania, 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.
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.
Scottish: patronymic from Donald , generally representing an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dhomhnaill (see McDonald ).
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