When Thomas Leffingwell was born in August 1845, in Winnebago, Illinois, United States, his father, William Leffingwell, was 57 and his mother, Ursula McClure, was 40. He married Margaret Elizabeth Austin on 30 September 1874, in Carroll, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Grant Township, Carroll, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Glidden, Carroll, Iowa, United States for about 10 years. He died after 1920.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Winnebago, Illinois, United States
English: habitational name from Leppingwells in Essex, which is recorded as Leffingwelles in 1561 and owed its name to the possessions there of the family of Robert de Leffeldewelle (1302), who is called Leffingwell in an Elizabethan transcript of the Court Rolls.
History: The family, called Leffingwell in the 15th century and Leppingwell in the 16th, took its name from a lost place recorded as Liffildeuuella in 1086 (from the Old English personal name Lēofhild + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’), which may survive in a corrupt form in Levit's Corner in Pebmarsh (Essex), into which their possessions extended.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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