Brief Life History of Daniel Messer
When Daniel Messer Fox was born on 7 December 1806, in Tinicum Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Johanes Fox, was 23 and his mother, Elizabeth Messer, was 25. He married Eliza Leisse Lichtenwalner on 9 August 1831, in Bath, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Mahoning Township, Montour, Pennsylvania, United States in 1850 and Calhoun, Michigan, United States in 1880. He died on 30 May 1881, in Fredonia Township, Calhoun, Michigan, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States.
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- Daniel Fox, "United States Census, 1830"
- Legacy NFS Source: Daniel M Fox - Published information: Family genealogies: birth-name: Daniel M Fox
- Daniel M. Fox, "Find A Grave Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812 · Harrisburg Becomes the State Capital
Harrisburg had important parts with migration, the Civil War, and the Industrial Revolution.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from a word denoting the animal (Middle English, Old English fox), widely used to denote a sly or cunning individual. It was also used for someone with red hair. In England this surname absorbed some early examples of surnames derived from the ancient Germanic personal names mentioned at Faulks and Foulks .
Irish: part translation of Gaelic Mac an tSionnaigh ‘son of the fox’ (see Tinney ).
Irish: also adopted for Ó Catharnaigh, see Kearney .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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