When Joseph Clingenpeel was born in 1819, in Franklin County, Virginia, United States, his father, Joseph Clingenpeel, was 31 and his mother, Margaret Betz, was 30. He married Anna Hipple about 1832, in Liberty, Montgomery, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Canton, Fulton, Illinois, United States.
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Vandalia was founded in 1819 as a new capital because Kaskaskia was under the threat of floods. The history of the name Vandalia is uncertain. Under the law which Vandalia was founded states that the title of capital would not be moved from there for twenty years. Even though it was the capital it was never the most populous area in Illinois.
“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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