Brief Life History of Jeremiah P
When Jeremiah P Colvin was born on 13 October 1834, in Danby, Rutland, Vermont, United States, his father, Alfred Colvin, was 32 and his mother, Betsey Ridlon, was 30. He married Lydia Ann McGahen about 1860, in Edinboro, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Washington Township, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States for about 50 years. He died on 13 November 1910, in Edinboro, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Edinboro, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Jerry Calvin, "United States Census, 1870"
- Jeremiah Colvin, "Find A Grave Index"
- Jerry Colvin in entry for Lewis M. Colvin and Susanna Roberts, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
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.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish (Donegal, Antrim): variant of Colville , probably reflecting a local pronunciation. The name was taken to Ulster in the 17th century.
Manx: if not identical with 1, perhaps from the Old Norse personal name Kolbeinn, with /v/ substituted for /b/.
English: from the rare Middle English personal name Colwin, Colvin, which may be a borrowing into English of a Welsh name whose modern form is Collwyn ‘white’, or of colwyn ‘doe, puppy, pet dog’, or of the placename Colwyn (Denbighshire, Radnorshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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