Brief Life History of William Sullivan
When William Sullivan Leffingwell was born in 1822, in Massachusetts, United States, his father, Gurdon Leffingwell, was 26 and his mother, Hulda E. Smith, was 26. He lived in Rockton, Winnebago, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Shirland, Winnebago, Illinois, United States in 1880. He died on 19 December 1896, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Shirland, Winnebago, Illinois, United States.
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Sources (8)
- William Leffingwell, "United States Census, 1880"
- Legacy NFS Source: William Leffingwell - Government record: birth-name: William Leffingwell
- Wm S Leffingwell, "Find A Grave Index"
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World Events (8)
1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1836
Historical Boundaries: 1836: Winnebago, Illinois, United States
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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