When Samuel B Kochendorfer was born on 12 December 1825, in New Enterprise, South Woodbury Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Christian Kochendarfer, was 42 and his mother, Mary Miller Brumbaugh, was 31. He married Catherine about 1854, in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Woodbury Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850. He died on 10 October 1899, in South Woodbury Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Holsinger Cemetery, Bakers Summit, Bloomfield Township, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.
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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.
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Some characteristic forenames: German Wilhelm.
German (Kochendörfer): habitational name for someone from any of several places called Kochendorf, in Württemberg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Bohemia.
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