Brief Life History of Harriet Charlotte
When Harriet Charlotte Leffingwell was born in 1826, in Massachusetts, United States, her father, Gurdon Leffingwell, was 30 and her mother, Hulda E. Smith, was 30. She married John Calvin on 24 September 1864, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. She lived in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, United States in 1880 and Rockton, Winnebago, Illinois, United States for about 10 years. She died on 24 December 1911, at the age of 85, and was buried in Rockton, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.
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- Hattie C Calvin in household of John Calvin, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Harriet Leffingwell - Government record: birth-name: Harriet Leffingwell
- Hattie C Leffingwell, "Wisconsin, County Marriages, 1836-1911"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
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.
1834
Historical Boundaries: 1834: Illinois, United States 1836: Winnebago, Illinois, United States
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
Name Meaning
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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