When Alvin House was born about 1808, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, his father, George Washington House Sr, was 27 and his mother, Elizabeth Hull, was 24. He married Malinda Mehanna on 21 September 1829, in Bath, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Richland Township, Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1870 and Kirkville, Wapello, Iowa, United States in 1880. He died in 1870, at the age of 63.
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Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Bath County was established in 1811 from land given by Montgomery County, Kentucky. Its name is derived from natural springs said to have medicinal qualities.
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
English: topographic or occupational name for someone employed ‘at the house’, from Middle English hous(e) (Old English hūs), probably a religious house such as a convent. In the Middle Ages the majority of the population lived in cottages or huts rather than houses.
English: variant of Howes .
English: perhaps a topographic name from an unrecorded Middle English huse, a southwest dialect form of Old English hyse ‘place overgrown with (water) plants’, a derivative of Old English hos ‘(water) plant’. In modern English, the name might have been absorbed into Huss or Hose .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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