When Joseph Greeley Swan was born on 2 October 1812, in Bethel, Bethel, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States, his father, William David Swan, was 21 and his mother, Elizabeth Howe, was 20. He married Temperance Allen on 10 December 1848, in Brownfield, Oxford, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Bethel, Oxford, Maine, United States in 1812. He died on 17 April 1891, in Denmark, Oxford, Maine, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Holt Cemetery, Denmark, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
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Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English: occupational name from Middle English swon(e), northern Middle English swan(e) ‘swineherd; peasant; male servant’ (Old English swān). Compare Swain 2, with which this name was thoroughly confused.
English: occasionally perhaps a nickname from Middle English swan, swon ‘swan’. In the Middle Ages, the swan was taken as a symbol of false pride, and, according to Chaucer, jealousy. Compare Kite , Nightingale , and Pye .
English: from the Middle English and Older Scots personal name Swan, an Anglicized form of Old Norse Sveinn. Compare Swain 1.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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