When Amanda Livingston was born on 15 November 1839, in Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois, United States, her father, Abraham Livingston Jr, was 32 and her mother, Louisa Smith, was 27. She married Robert Veitch Hesselgrave about 1855, in Minnesota, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Arlington, Sibley, Minnesota, United States for about 10 years and Verona Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States for about 20 years. She died on 19 September 1918, in Winnebago, Faribault, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Winnebago City Township, Faribault, Minnesota, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1855:Blue Earth, Minnesota Territory, United States 1855: Faribault, Minnesota Territory, United States 1858: Faribault, Minnesota, United States
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Scottish: habitational name from a place in Lothian, originally named in Middle English as Levingston. The placename derives from the Middle English personal name Leving (genitive Levinges) + Middle English, Older Scots toun ‘town, village, settlement’.
Irish: surname adopted as equivalent of Gaelic Ó Duinnshléibhe and Mac Duinnshléibhe (see Dunleavy ).
Americanized form of Jewish Lowenstein .
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