Brief Life History of Harvey
When Harvey Burr was born in 1843, in Hartford, Trumbull, Ohio, United States, his father, Linus Burr, was 47 and his mother, Eunice Lavinia Fuller, was 39. He lived in Troy Township, Geauga, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died on 9 October 1862, in Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Nashville National Cemetery, Madison, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Harvey Burr in household of Eunice Burr, "United States Census, 1850"
- Harvey Burr in the U.S. Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2006
- Harvey Burr, "United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1846
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Name Meaning
English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles), used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur, a person difficult to ‘shake off’, a sense which may well be older.
German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound, hill’, or in the south a variant of Burrer .
History: The American political leader Aaron Burr (1756–1836) was the son of a clergyman and academic, president of Princeton University. On his mother's side he was descended from the Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards; on his father's from Jehu Burr, who emigrated from England to MA with John Winthrop (see Winthrop ) in 1630.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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