When Henry Merrell was born about 1843, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Jonathan Merrill, was 43 and his mother, Polly T Murray, was 37. He lived in Buncombe, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
English: variant of Merrill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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