When Samuel Rostron Burgess was born on 26 December 1851, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, his father, Peter Burgess, was 36 and his mother, Mary Alice Rostron, was 30. He married Eveline Allen on 4 July 1876, in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Missouri, United States in 1870. He died on 18 January 1918, in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: status name from Middle English burge(i)s, burgis, borgeis ‘inhabitant of a borough’ (strictly one possessing full municipal rights), ‘freeman of a borough’. Burgesses generally had tenure of land or buildings from a landlord by burgage. In medieval England burgage involved the payment of a fixed money rent (as opposed to payment in kind); in Scotland it involved payment in service, guarding the town. The -eis ending is from Latin -ensis (modern English -ese as in Portuguese). Compare Burger .
Americanized form of French Bourgeois .
History: Thomas Burgess came from England to MA c. 1630 and eventually settled in Sandwich, MA.
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