When Anna Judith Peterson was born on 19 December 1844, in Clarklake, Township of Columbia, Jackson, Michigan, United States, her father, Daniel F. Peterson, was 54 and her mother, Elizabeth Betsey Otto, was 43. She married Silas T Church on 18 November 1866, in Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Township of Ensley, Newaygo, Michigan, United States in 1880 and Township of Solon, Kent, Michigan, United States for about 30 years. She died on 28 August 1934, in Cedar Springs, Kent, Michigan, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Cedar Springs, Kent, Michigan, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The capital of Michigan was moved from Detroit to Lansing on March 17, 1847. The capital was moved to be further away from Canada, to encourage settlement and boost economy toward the inner regions of the state, and to make to capital more accessible to everyone statewide.
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
English, Scottish, and German: patronymic from the personal name Peter . In North America, this surname has absorbed various cognates and their derivatives from other languages, e.g. Norwegian and Danish Pedersen and Pettersen and their Swedish cognates (see 2 below), Polish Piotrowicz , Slovenian Petrič, Petrovčič, and Petrovič (see Petric , Petrovic ).
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Petersson, a cognate of 1 above, and also of its variant Pettersson . Compare 1 above.
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