Brief Life History of Alfred
When Alfred Howell was born on 3 September 1825, in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Benjamin Betterton Howell, was 38 and his mother, Frances Howell, was 34. He married Elizabeth Jennings Dawson on 27 January 1853, in Brownsville, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Union Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Pennsylvania, United States in 1870. He died on 10 May 1887, in Uniontown, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 61, and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, South Union Township, Fayette, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Alfred Howell, "United States Census, 1860"
- Alfred Howell, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- Alfred Howell, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
Welsh and English: in the Welsh border counties, from the Welsh male personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages particularly in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king. The name may also arise from the Breton personal name Houuel, Huwel, Huwal, Howael, cognate with the Welsh name. Bretons were especially numerous in the eastern counties of England. See Powell .
English: perhaps from a Middle English personal name Huwel (spelled Howel), a shortening of Huwelot or Huelin (see Hewlett and Huling ), both pet forms of Middle English Huw (see Hugh ).
English: habitational name from Howell (Lincolnshire), from an uncertain initial element + Old English wella ‘well, spring, stream’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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