When Alexander McCormick was born in 1798, in Kingsport, Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, his father, William John McCormick, was 33 and his mother, Nancy Eliza Hendricks, was 33. He married Rachael Williams about 1825, in Overton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in March 1860, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States, at the age of 62.
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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.
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Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cormaic ‘son of Cormac’, a personal name based on corb ‘raven’ + mac ‘son’.
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