When Benjamin Clingenpeel was born in 1821, in Franklin, Virginia, United States, his father, Joseph Clingenpeel, was 33 and his mother, Margaret Betz, was 32. He died on 22 December 1847, at the age of 26.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
“The Virginia Housewife” was published by Mary Randolph. It was the first cookbook published in America.
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.
Americanized form of German Klingebeil, a variant of Klingbeil .
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