When Mary Brenneman was born on 11 September 1802, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, John Bowman Brenneman, was 39 and her mother, Elizabetha Bossler, was 34. She married Martin Miller on 19 November 1822, in Manor Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 14 May 1826, in her hometown, at the age of 23.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
The United States purchased all the Louisiana territory (828,000 sq. mi) from France, only paying 15 million dollars (A quarter trillion today) for the land. In the purchase, the US obtained the land that makes up 15 US states and 2 Canadian Provinces. The United States originally wanted to purchase of New Orleans and the lands located on the coast around it, but quickly accepted the bargain that Napoleon Bonaparte offered.
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Americanized form of Swiss German Brönnimann, via its German altered form Brennemann (see below).
Americanized form of German Brennemann: probably a variant of Brenner . Compare Branaman and Breneman .
History: This (see 1 above) is the name of a Swiss Mennonite and Amish family, originally spelled Brönnimann. The name was first brought to the Palatinate, Germany, in the 17th century by Melchior Brönnimann, a refugee who fled from the canton of Bern, Switzerland, because of religious persecution. In the Palatinate the name was changed to German form Brennemann and then, with the arrival of the Mennonite immigrant Melchior Brenneman(n) in Lancaster County, PA, in the beginning of the 18th century, to Brenneman. Among the Mennonites and Amish in the US the name is also established in the form Breneman.
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