Brief Life History of Austin Kent
When Austin Kent Hale was born on 23 May 1850, in Adams Center, Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States, his father, Austin Pratt Hale, was 38 and his mother, Hannah Kent, was 31. He married Harriet E. Oatman on 27 June 1915, in Jefferson, New York, United States. He lived in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, United States in 1920 and New York, United States in 1922. He died on 21 September 1920, at the age of 70, and was buried in Adams, Adams, Jefferson, New York, United States.
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- A K Hale in household of Austin P Hale, "United States Census, 1860"
- A Kent Hale, "New York, County Marriages, 1847-1848; 1908-1936"
- Austin K Hale, "New York, State Death Index, 1880-1956"
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1854 · Creation of the Republican Party
A debate continues over the location of the creation of the Republican Party. Some sources claim the party was formed in Ripon, Wisconsin, on February 28, 1854. Others claim the first meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, 1854, where the Republican Party was officially organized. Over 1,000 people were present and candidates were selected for the party, thus making it the first Republican convention.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
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.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived in a (usually remote) nook or corner of land, from Old English and Middle English hale, dative of h(e)alh ‘nook, hollow’, or a habitational name from a place so named such as Hale in Cheshire, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, Holme Hale (Norfolk), Hale Street (Kent), and Haile (Cumberland). In northern England the word often has a specialized meaning, denoting a piece of flat alluvial land by the side of a river, typically one deposited in a bend. See Haugh . In southeastern England it often referred to a patch of dry land in a fen. In some cases the surname may be a habitational name from any of several places in England named with this fossilized inflected form, which would originally have been preceded by a preposition, e.g. in the hale or at the hale. This surname is also established in south Wales.
Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Céile (see McHale ).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Halle .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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