When John Plank Merwin was born on 25 March 1808, in Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Nicholas Mervine, was 25 and his mother, Mary Plank, was 25. He had at least 5 sons and 4 daughters with Mary Ann Freese. He lived in Perry Township, Stark, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Massillon, Stark, Ohio, United States for about 20 years. He died in 1885, in Stark, Ohio, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Massillon, Stark, Ohio, United States.
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Zanesville becomes the new state capital.
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English: variant of Marvin .
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