Brief Life History of Tobias
When Tobias Cato was born on 25 August 1798, in Monroe, Alabama, United States, his father, William Henry Cato, was 32 and his mother, Sarah Massey, was 28. He died from 1799 to 1888.
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1815
Historical Boundaries: 1815: Monroe, Mississippi Territory, United States 1817: Monroe, Alabama Territory, United States 1819: Monroe, Alabama, United States
1822 · Slave Rebellion
On June 16, 1822, Denmark Vesey a free and self-educated African American leads a slave rebellion called "the rising." The interesting thing about this rebellion is that it does not really happen. The only thing the judges have to go on is the testimony of people that witness it.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: variant of Catoe .
Swedish: perhaps a soldier's name, bestowed with reference to Cato, the Roman statesman.
Bosniak, Serbian, and Croatian (Ćato, in Bosnia and Herzegovina also Čato): occupational name from Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian ćato ‘scribe, clerk’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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