When Wylie Cato was born on 3 December 1795, in Kershaw, Camden District, South Carolina, United States, his father, William Henry Cato, was 30 and his mother, Sarah Massey, was 25. He married Mary Truesdale on 25 November 1815. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1835, in South Carolina, United States, at the age of 40.
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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.
France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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’.
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