Brief Life History of Knight
When Knight Lappin was born about 1800, in Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Robert Lappin, was 32 and his mother, Elizabeth Kirk, was 31. He married Martha Morris on 4 May 1825, in Belmont, Goshen Township, Belmont, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Jefferson Township, Putnam, Indiana, United States in 1850 and Owen, Indiana, United States in 1860. He died in 1872, in Wayne, Illinois, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Lappin Cemetery, Berry Township, Wayne, Illinois, United States.
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- Knight Lappin, "United States Census, 1860"
- Knight Sappen, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016"
- Knight Lappin, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1819 · Panic! of 1819
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.
Name Meaning
Irish: from Ó Lapáin ‘descendant of Lapán’, perhaps a nickname from lapán ‘little fist’. Sometimes Anglicized as Delap or Delapp in Ireland.
English: from the Middle English personal name Lapin, possibly a nickname for a timid person, from Old French lapin ‘rabbit’, or it may be a derivative of Old English læppa ‘lap (of a garment)’, ‘sleeve’, ‘small strip of cloth or hide’, ‘person's lap or bosom’, ‘flap of flesh’, ‘piece of land at the edge of an estate’, but what sense the derived term might have when used as a surname is unclear.
Polish and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant of Lapin .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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