When William Leffingwell was born on 24 March 1818, in Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Elisha Leffingwell, was 30 and his mother, Louisa Clark, was 23. He married Zilpah Ruth Sheldon Wait on 26 October 1839, in Huntington, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He lived in Exira Township, Audubon, Iowa, United States in 1860 and Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States in 1865.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
Iowa is the 29th state.
Historical Boundaries: 1851: Audubon, Iowa, 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.
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